This is quite possibly the only picture book in which the sun is portrayed as a giant Jell-O mold and mustard arrives in the form of hail. There's no need for grocery stores in the city of Chewandswallow: food rains down from the sky. But a change in the weather blows in massive problems....Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1978.

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.

In the land of Chewandswallow, meals rain from the sky three times a day, but when the weather goes awry meals come down at the wrong times, in the wrong amounts, and in the wrong places.

In the land of Chewandswallow, meals rain from the sky three times a day, but when the weather goes awry meals come down at the wrong times, in the wrong amounts, and in the wrong places.