The townspeople decide to glue together giant pieces of bread and set sail on rafts for calmer lands. "So a decision was made to abandon the town of Chewandswallow. "Everyone feared for their lives," writes Judi Barrett. In the story, everything is going well in the town of Chewandswallow until one day the weather takes a turn. Judi says the mother looks like Ron's mother - Ron disagrees - but he does admit to drawing his Uncle Eli as the Grandpa. There's also some debate about the various family members Judi and Ron included in this book. "I thought to myself, well he's wearing a disguise because the food came from de-skys," says Ron.
It was a form of "self entertainment" Ron says, to include - for example - a kid wearing a Groucho mask in a scene in Ralph's Roofless Restaurant.
"They would come back the next day and find all new things." "They felt that I would come into their home every night and add more details," says Ron. The illustrations are so meticulous that Ron says he was once contacted by a mother who was reading the book to her son, who said they started to think of him as "Sneaky Barrett." It's possible to make out individual bricks in the chimneys. The light posts in town have campaign posters stuck on them. You can see bags and hats for sale in the window of Kathy's Gift Shop - next door a barber is cutting hair. Even though the story is a fantasy - "a ludicrous fantasy," says Judi - the town and its people are fully realized. "I really wanted to create a world that was so believable that kids would find it a very credible situation," he says. He says he using "tiny, tiny" nibs to create all the fine details and lines. Ron Barrett illustrated Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs in pen and ink. The pair say they remained very friendly after their divorce.
They created Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs after their separation. The Barretts met at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s - their first books together were Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing. "I don't know what made me think of it other than the fact that I'm very involved with food," Barrett says.Ĭloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is one of several children's books Barrett wrote that were illustrated by her ex-husband, Ron Barrett. Sony Pictures Animation even turned the children's book into a movie in 2009. Hotdogs, already in their buns, blew in from the northeast.įood falling from the sky! It's every kid's fantasy - and since its publication in 1978, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has sold millions of copies.
In Chewandswallow, it rained soup and juice. Everything that everyone ate came from the sky." In Judi Barrett's classic children's book, the town of Chewandswallow was just like any other town - except for the weather: "It came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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