Ron Barrett
Author of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
About the Author
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Works by Ron Barrett
The Pop-Up White House: Open the Book and You're Ready to Play President and First Lady!: Complete with… (1983) 8 copies
Paperback published in 1982. 3 copies
The Top 10 As We Hit Bottom: What Global Warming, Nuclear War, Cyberwar, Pandemics, Supervolcanoes, Asteroid Strikes,… (2020) — Illustrator — 3 copies
Associated Works
Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (1997) — Illustrator — 1,413 copies
The Complete Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; Pickles to Pittsburgh (2009) — Illustrator — 52 copies
Omnivores : they said they would eat anything, and they did! / By Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron ; with an… (1979) — Illustrator — 9 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1937-07-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- High School of Art and Design
- Occupations
- illustrator
artist - Relationships
- Barrett, Judi (former spouse)
- Organizations
- Children's Television Workshop
- Short biography
- Ron Barrett is the illustrator of the classic picture book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, one of the NY Times Ten Best Illustrated Books. It has sold over six million copies globally and produced two motion pictures, a TV series and plas-tic toys in Happy Meals.
Ron has illustrated and authored 31 books for children and adults. He was the illustrator of O.J.’s Legal Pad, a NY Times Bestseller for 20 weeks. His Cats Get Famous, sequel to Cats Got Talent published by Simon & Schuster, is a recent work. An Excessive Alphabet, Avalanches of As to Zillions of Zs was published in Fall 2016 and honored as a Junior Library Guild and Amazon selection. A sequel to Animals should definitely not wear clothing, in print for 45 years, was published in 2018.
He’s also been a consultant to the Children’s TV Workshop (Sesame Street) and Art Director of The National Lampoon.
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The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers.
Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the people feared for their lives.
Something had to be done, and in a hurry.… (more)
But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers.
Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The food got larger and larger and so did the portions. Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food. The town was a mess and the people feared for their lives.
Something had to be done, and in a hurry.… (more)
Ok, listen up y’all this may look like your everyday kids fairytale rhyming book, but I’m here to tell you it’s a scandalous adult version.
You will find Rapunzel, Jack and Snow White poems written to appease adults. This had me laughing out loud and I don’t think I will be able to read the classic fairytales the same anymore!
This is a perfect gift for anyone who loves fairytales or any parent who is reading fairytales to their kids and needs a good laugh.
The illustrations are spot on, On the second slide I took a pic of the authors spin on Snow White!! Totally hysterical!… (more)
You will find Rapunzel, Jack and Snow White poems written to appease adults. This had me laughing out loud and I don’t think I will be able to read the classic fairytales the same anymore!
This is a perfect gift for anyone who loves fairytales or any parent who is reading fairytales to their kids and needs a good laugh.
The illustrations are spot on, On the second slide I took a pic of the authors spin on Snow White!! Totally hysterical!… (more)
Oddly prescient about climate change and climate refugees, this ultimate celebration of the five-second rule is just too goofy for me.
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Statistics
- Works
- 25
- Also by
- 16
- Members
- 12,819
- Popularity
- #1,831
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 382
- ISBNs
- 166
- Languages
- 4
I love that the illustrations change from black and white to color, and I love the idea of not having to cook or plan meals because it just comes with the weather.
However, the thought of milk falling from the sky and getting stuck in a drain somewhere makes me want to vomit.