Barrett, Judi

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

Rhymed text and illustrations suggest some new ways of looking at familiar things.

Explains why it would be a bad idea for animals to adopt the human custom of wearing clothes.

Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt.

Depicts the inconveniences animals would be burdened with if they behaved like people.

The story of a man who gets carried away with his garden.

Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches, and the fate of the falling food intrigues her.

The reader who wants to know what are the quietest, silliest, smelliest, wiggliest things in the world finds imaginative answers to these and other questions about superlatives.