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jgurniak's review
4.0
If you want to read a quirky picturebook to your kids then I would recommend this one!
avesmaria's review
4.0
The tastiest tale ever about food falling from the sky that becomes so large and dangerous people fear for their lives. It's a rare kid's book these days that doesn't have a pat moral or conventional story arc; I enjoyed the shaggy dog story-within-a-story non-plot and the fun illustrations, which are chock full of silly food puns.
mdevlin923's review
4.0
A grandpa shares a tall tale about the land of Chewandswallow, where everyone gets their food from the sky: rain of soup and juice, snow of peas and mashed potatoes, and tornadoes of ketchup.
A classic picture book that will get kids laughing and thinking about all the imaginary possibilities of food falling from the sky. A good choice for reading aloud to a classroom (preschool to grade 2).
A classic picture book that will get kids laughing and thinking about all the imaginary possibilities of food falling from the sky. A good choice for reading aloud to a classroom (preschool to grade 2).
mash369's review
5.0
Should never have been turned into a movie. One of my most favorite childhood books ever.
whimsicalmeerkat's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favorite books as a child. I still find it hilarious! (The movie is pretty great too, despite having little resemblance to the book.)
attaboi's review
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
katykelly's review
5.0
Why did I not discover this as a child?!?! Brilliant concept, beautifully illustrated and makes me very hungry for meatballs :)
gracepizza40's review
3.0
Pros:
-The illustrations are amazing! I loved that the authors used lines for shading. It looks awesome. And the drawings themselves are very nice. Not too realistic, but not too cartoonish either. I love them!
-All the fun things they put in the illustrations:
Cons (?/other things I noticed):
-I noticed that there were only white or black people in the book.
-The food is very American. If there was actually an island like Chewandswallow, then there would be much more interesting, diverse types of foods every day! Yum! That would be a cool story idea!...
-How do they create all these foods like the various meats, pancakes, eggs, etc .?
-They have a grandpa and a mother. Where did the dad go?
-The illustrations are amazing! I loved that the authors used lines for shading. It looks awesome. And the drawings themselves are very nice. Not too realistic, but not too cartoonish either. I love them!
-All the fun things they put in the illustrations:
Spoiler
In the newspaper, "The Chewandswallow Digest", "Spaghetti Ties Up Town", "Record-Breaking Pasta Fall Causes Chaos", "Traffic snarled on Lower Intestine Street", the Bowel Movers truck, the woman reading "Gone With the Wind" while she and other citizens were being swept up in the salt-and-pepper hurricane, and the sign reading "CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY FOOD" were my favorites.Spoiler
-the fat pancake that covered the school.Cons (?/other things I noticed):
-I noticed that there were only white or black people in the book.
-The food is very American. If there was actually an island like Chewandswallow, then there would be much more interesting, diverse types of foods every day! Yum! That would be a cool story idea!...
-How do they create all these foods like the various meats, pancakes, eggs, etc .?
-They have a grandpa and a mother. Where did the dad go?