What impresses this Goodreader right from the start?

When Grandpa sends a postcard to Henry and Kate, it's full of vacation news. What grabs my attention is this part:

We've visited many unusual places, met the local people and even helped them out with some of their chores.

Wow, that's how I'd love to visit the world, not only seeing places and meeting locals but being of service. Anyway, back to the picture book...

LATER THAT NIGHT

Kate drifts into dreams, where she learns about the FALLING FOOD COMPANY. This place must be tasted to be believed. Um, imaginedly tasted, right?

FIVE STARS for this wonderfully delicious read.
Thank you author Judi Barrett and artist Ron Barrett.

I feel as if this book would have been better had the bar not been set so high with CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS. The illustrations were fun and surreal, but the magic seemed to be missing from the text. The intended audience, kids, will probably still enjoy it though.

I was disappointed to see that the illustrator, if his short bio at the book's conclusion is correct, seems to have given up his vegetarianism since the publication of CLOUDY.

This sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs makes a visit to the legendary city of Chewandswallow. The townspeople have figured out what to do with the copious amounts of food that have fallen from the sky. The generosity of the town will be heartwarming to young readers who are learning to be mindful about waste. The artwork is very similar to the drawings in the first book: larger than life servings of every imaginable food piling up on the streets of Chewandswallow. It's a fun follow-up, but the original book is still the best.

It was all a dream . . . or was it?

That's all you need to know about this tripe.

This book is a sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which I enjoyed. However, I was not fond of this book. The story is about two kids, Henry and Kate that received a post card from their grandpa while he was on vacation. Eagerly awaiting his return, Kate and Henry prepare for him to come home by baking him a cake. The night before grandpa comes home, Kate reads the postcard before she goes to bed and then has a dream about traveling through the town of Chewandswallow. On their journey, Kate and Henry encounter mountains of bread, a jungle of lettuce, a forest of carrots and bagels, and many other strange things. While the pictures are beautifully sketched, I was bored while reading this book and couldn't wait for it to end. I feel a sequel was not necessary as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a classic.

It was a pretty good sequel!

I like that this book had a solution for world hunger :)

A frame narrative with too many frames.

definitely not as good as its predecessor, but a worthy sequel. the bacon runway was memorable.

This book has a great use of vocabulary words. It is the follow-up to Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs and should be read to young students!

I remember loving the first one as a child. I was not terribly impressed with this one. I think kids will find it funny and will love the illustrations, but I wasn't excited about it and that was disappointing.

A cute follow up to cloudy with a chance of meatballs about two kids visiting a land where food is plentiful and what that town does with it. Full of adventure and whimsy but a little long. One on one or preschool.