Judi Barrett

Judi Barrett ( Bauman; born 1941) is an American author and art teacher most well known for her picture books for children, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing.

Biography She grew up in Brooklyn NY, and later attended the Pratt Institute, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in advertising design in 1962. After graduating from Pratt, Barrett worked as a freelance designer for advertising agencies before pursuing a career in education. She began teaching art and woodworking to young children in 1968 and continued to teach and study at various institutions. Barrett took graduate courses on early childhood education at the Bank Street College of Education, studied painting and pottery at the Brooklyn Museum, and taught painting to children at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Their most famous work, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, was created after their separation in 1978. The book tells the story of a town where food falls from the sky like rain and has since become a beloved classic. The book was adapted into an animated film in 2009 and a sequel in 2013.

She now teaches at The Berkeley Carroll School located in Brooklyn NY and continues writing children’s novels.

Selected books Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1969 Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1970 An Apple a Day (illustrated by Tim Lewis), 1973 Benjamin's 365 Birthdays (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1974 Peter's Pocket (illustrated by Julia Noonan), 1974 I Hate to Take a Bath (illustrated by Charles B. Slackman), 1975 I Hate to Go to Bed (illustrated by Ray Cruz), Four Winds Press, 1977 The Wind Thief (illustrated by Diane Dawson), 1977 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1978 Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1980 I'm Too Small, You're Too Big (illustrated by David S. Rose), 1981 A Snake Is Totally Tail (illustrated by L. S. Johnson), 1983 What's Left?, 1983 Pickles Have Pimples, and Other Silly Statements (illustrated by L. S. Johnson), 1986 Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1997 Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 1998 The Things That Are Most in the World (illustrated by John Nickle), 1998 I Know Two Who Said Moo: A Counting and Rhyming Book (illustrated by Daniel Moreton), 2000 Which Witch Is Which? (illustrated by Sharleen Collicott), 2001 Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and Other Things Not To Do) (illustrated by John Nickle), 2008 The Marshmallow Incident (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 2009 The Complete Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (illustrated by Ron Barrett), 2009 Santa from Cincinnati (illustrated by Kevin Hawks), 2012 Planet of the Pies: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3 (illustrated by Isidre Monés), 2013