Judi Barrett

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.

Benjamin figures out how to have a birthday every day of the year.

When Peter's mother makes portable pockets that can be pinned on to any of his clothes, he is able to carry around all his important things.

The wind wants his own special hat, so he arranges it with a puff.

Although Ella and Emily look alike, their choices of food, games, and colors at a birthday party help the reader tell them apart.

A list of things one should not do with various animals, such as "hold hands with a lobster."

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

Text and pictures contrast the size differences between Daddy and son and point out that though being small is frustrating, it has some advantages.

Mr. MacDonald, an apartment super, turns his building into a four-story farm with hot and cold running sweet potato vines, ceiling carrots, carpets of cabbages, and other farm produce and animals, prompting all the tenants to move out.

Everyone knows that snakes and billy goats and walruses should definitely not wear clothing, but there are actually lots more animals that should definitely not wear clothing Because a frog might jump out of it, Because a crab might tear it up, And because a penguin is already formally dressed!

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.

Answers such questions as "What's left after you finish crying?" and "What's left after it rains?"