Didn't like it as much as the first one

This is just like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Pickles to Pittsburgh is a book intended for children in kindergarten through second grade. This book is the sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. In this story, grandpa goes on vacation, and his grandchildren dream that he went back to the town of Chewandswallow. In their dream, it snows popcorn and mash potatoes, and rains sandwiches and orange juice. This falling food in then shipped to hungry people and needy counties all over the world. When grandpa returns, he shows his grandchildren pictures and they wonder whether their dreams were really reality.

This book is filled with some imagination, but it is not as magical, interesting, and enjoyable as the first book. In addition, without reading the first book, the reader would be quite confused since it does a poor job of summarizing the first book and starting where the last book ended. However, the book does provide a nice solution to end world hunger. The illustrations, design, and layout of the book are wonderful, and have a comic book feel. This book can be used to jumpstart students’ imagination before writing and is a good example of fantasy as opposed to reality. This book sends a good message to students who want to give back, but is not as imaginative, magical, or exciting as the first book, which may leave students feeling disappointed.

I had big hopes for this one, but maybe I should've reread Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs right before reading it, because it seemed like it lacked explanation. The ending of the story was positive and a great dream, but the setup seemed stretched thin and like I had missed something fundamental. If I reread the previous book, maybe I'll kick myself for being so hard on it, but on its own, it wasn't my favorite and I can't imagine it was any more fun for my preschooler.

In this sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Grandpa is returning home from an unusual vacation. This lively story is a satisfying sequel to a delicious classic!

_Cloudy With A Chance_ has a sequel?

When did this happen?

Why was I not informed?

No, seriously. This is a serious breakdown in communication, here. _Cloudy_ was a book I got for myself. I just read it to my son so that I don't look like a weirdo.

I love the little art references to the first book: a picture of the town from the same view, only now after the Foodpocalypse.

Pickles to Pittsburgh by Judi Barrett is is the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Food continues to rain down in Chewandswallow. It's gotten larger and larger and more out of control. Now that the residents have evacuated they have to decide what to do with their weather problem.

Rather than see this over-sized food as a problem (as it is in the movie adaptation of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), the food is seen as a blessing. There's a chance to share the bounty, hence the Pickles to Pittsburgh.

As I mentioned in my review of the first book, the artwork, while retro feeling, did provide much of the artistic inspiration for the film. That holds true for the sequel. As the food here is naturally occurring, it's seen as a natural resource.

If you read the book with a child who has seen the movie, take a chance to talk about how it's similar and different. They will recognize many of the scenes from the second half of the movie but they might be surprised at how differently these scenes are described in the book.

Four stars

Not as fresh as the original, but definitely worthy as a sequel.

sequel!!!!!! there's sequel to my favorite childhood book and I didn't know about it????? I must have it.

This is the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. While the illustrations are just as wonderful, the story is only so so. It is still worth a read if you like Cloudy.

When I picked up Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs at the library (which I had never read), I was surprised to discover that there was a lesser-known sequel on the shelf next to it. Published almost twenty years after the first book, Pickles to Pittsburgh tells of the two kids from the first book, and their dream-like journey back to the island of Chewandswallow, where they witness the changes that have taken place after the people were forced by destructive edible weather to vacate their homes.

This book is in some ways an exact repeat of the first book, which makes it seem completely unnecessary. There are a few new elements which were kind of fun, but overall, I feel like it just the story just didn't need to continue. It was nice to see that there was some use for the enormous food that continued to fall, since the whole thing seemed so wasteful in the first book! It's sad to me that this even crossed my mind, but it almost seemed to have a political slant, dealing with issues like international politics and poverty in underdeveloped countries, but that's a pretty oblique deal overall. Again, the illustrations were sometimes jarring (in the bookends with the main characters) and sometimes amusing (in the pages of the actual story of Chewandswallow), and the story was quite simple, but it was an all right read. I kind of just wished the author had done something a little more interesting with this unique concept.

Overall, it seems like this lesser-known sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is kind of superfluous, but it was quick and painless, and would probably amuse young fans of the first book.

I wish food fell down from the sky too.