This wonderful sequel to the popular book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is an excellent modern fantasy story that takes Kate and Henry back to the make-believe land of Chewandswallow, where food falls from the sky to feed the people. In this story, though, Kate and Henry learn about how the people of Chewandswallow are using the extra food from the previous story to help feed hungry people around the world. This message of compassion and benevolence is something that is important for children to learn. Readers will understand this message through these beloved characters and their famous and unusual, but exciting town. ( )

Genre: Fantasy ( )

This book is a sequel to “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. Grandpa has been traveling and sends his grandchildren a post card and mentions that he has seen some interesting things. When the children fall asleep they dream of a town that has extremely large food throughout the streets, yards and everywhere. There are many people working hard using heavy equipment and helicopters to transport the food to other countries. There is never a shortage of food because of the town.

The author, as in the previous book, uses wonderful pictures and illustrations throughout the book. The author even points back to some previous pictures from the first book, to help the reader recall how the town became filled with food. I really enjoyed the book, took my time at looking at the pictures. Most of them were funny and had interesting ideas as how the people extracted the food.

In the classroom, I would allow time for the students to look at each page from the book. I would ask them what caught their attention as different of funny. I then think that it would be a good idea for them to elaborate by writing a short paragraph about what they would like to do for work if they were at the town.

Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, where it snows popcorn and rains sandwiches and the fate of falling food intrigues her

An inferior book to the original, this tale revisits Chewandswallow to see people delivering giant food all over the world. The book is slow to start, and is basically just a lot of visual gags/scenes with large food. ( )