Judi Barrett Quotes

“By the time they woke up in the morning, breakfast was coming down. After a brief shower of orange juice, low clouds of sunny-side eggs moved in followed by pieces of toast. Butter and jelly sprinkled down for the toast. And most of the time it rained milk afterwards. ”

″ The only thing different about Chewandswallow was its weather. It came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Everything that everyone ate came from the sky”

“When the townspeople went outside, they carried their plates, cups, glasses, forks, spoons, knives, and napkins with them. That way they would always be prepared for any kind of weather. ”

“But it never rained rain. It never snowed snow. And it never blew just wind.”

“The sky supplied all the food they could possible want. ”

“Whatever the weather served, that was what they ate.”

“There was a storm of pancakes one morning and a downpour of maple syrup that nearly flooded the town.”

“Many houses had been damaged by giant meatballs, stores were boarded up and there was no more school for the children.”

″ It’s funny, but even as we were sliding down the hill we thought we saw a giant pat of butter at the top, and we could almost smell the mashed potatoes. ”

″ So a decision was made to abandon the town of Chewandswallow. It was a matter of survival.”

“They glued together the giant pieces of stale bread sandwich-style with peanut butter... took the absolute necessities with them, and set sail on their rafts for a new land. ”

″ The biggest change they had to make was getting used to buying food at a supermarket. ”

″ The people could watch the weather report on television in the morning and they would even hear a prediction for the next day’s food.”