In this sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Grandpa has gone on vacation. Henry and Kate highly anticipate his return. When Kate goes to bed, she dreams of Chewandswallow. She dreams that she flies there in an airplane with Henry. People are cleaning up the massive pile up of food. These people have created the Fallen Food Company. They ship the leftovers to all over the world wherever food is needed and they do it for free. Kate wakes up. When Grandpa gets home, Henry and Kate tuck him in with a bedtime story about the dream Kate had.

The illustrations are the same as in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. They are complex drawings and interesting to look at.

This story does not have the same excitement and zing as the first book. It simply revisits the story from book one with an added twist. This is a very simple solution to world hungry and wouldn't it be wonderful if it were reality instead of fantasy. Even though this doesn't hold the interest as well as book one, humongous food is still a fun topic that kids will enjoy and the pictures are not to be missed.

Pickles to Pittsburgh is the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and it tells the story of Kate's dream. Kate and Henry eagerly wait for their grandfather to come back home from his unusual vacation. The night before he arrives Kate has a dream where she and Henry go to a place called Chewandswallow. There they are shocked by the landscape of the place, everything is made of giant food. The are giant vegetables and desserts surround them and the being to explore. They learn the history of Chewandswallow and understand why they ship the food to different places around the world. The next day grandpa arrives and Kate wait to tell her grandpa about her dream but they don't know is that grandpa went to Chewandswallow for vacation.

This picture book is fun to read because it show a lot of creativity which children love. The images were drawn by Ron Barrett and they where all done with ink. The pictures that illustrate Kate and Henry in the 'real world' are all black and white and the pictures that illustrate the dream have full color. The color was added by Judi Barrett using watercolor which gave the finally image more detail.

found out recently that there was a sequel published in 1997 to CWACOM's which was published in 1978. I had read CWACOM's in the early 2000's when my daughter was little and again a few years ago with my son, now age 9. never knew about the sequel. Just read it with my son. I didn't like it as much as the first book, and like others have said, found it repetitive of the 1st book. The plots is basically just telling you what happened in the same town after the 1st book ended.

… Surrounded by milky blue skies and Henry as my copilot, we carefully steer our plane through Lauren‘s puffs of mist.

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n  The grandkids return to Chewandswallown

Grandpa is coming home soon to visit Kate and Henry. They miss Grandpa’s wonderful bedtime stories. Kate reads Grandpa’s postcard again right before she goes to bed and she “drifted off into my dreams ...”

And that’s when she and her brother experience the grandeur of Chewandswallow. And now, the changes that have been made, because the people returned to Chewandswallow and created the Falling Food Company — Large Food for Large and Small Countries, FREE. Now Kate has a bedtime story to tell Grandpa.

Love the illustrations.

I just bought this because I never knew there was a sequel to cloudy with a chance of meatballs! I think the town when it is covered by food is the best!@

The illustrations are cross-hatched and include extra detail on some pages. It's a story about giant food, so, it's humorous and imaginative.

It's been a while since we read Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and The Marshmallow Incident. This one is not quite as entertaining as Cloudy but was a fun sequel and a great use for excess food... If only starvation could be solved in such a way. The author has a great imagination! We of course had to dig out Cloudy and read it again.

I love this book. Cloudy with a change of Meatballs was my favorite as a child, and I was so excited to share it with my daughter and she loved it to. I never read this sequel as a child but I ready it to my daughter and we just both adore it! Judi Barrett is one of my favorite child writers and then her husbands art work and drawing style just makes it that much better!

I did not like this book as much as Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs.

Checked this one out from the library as a hopeful fun sequel to "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and was disappointed. It seemed too similar to the first book (even some illustrations are "repeated" on a smaller scale and the plot is kind of disappointing. Recommend sticking with the original.

They turned the town into a charitable organization sending food to hungry nations and I got absurdly close to crying cause it was so pure.