Pickles To Pittsburgh The Sequel To Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs : A Sequel To I Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
InPickles to Pittsburgh, the Barretts' sequel to the delightfully funny, bestsellingCloudy with a Chance  of Meatballs, we check back in with Kate and Henry as they  eagerly await Grandpa's return from an unusual vacation. Kate  dreams about a postcard Grandpa has sent, and the story begins.Kate and Henry pilot a plane, landing on a runway of crisp bacon  strips next to a field of giant broccoli stalks and oversized  hamburgers. Passing through an orange-juice rain, they approach  the town of Chewandswallow, which "used to be a very ordinary  town, except that instead of weather, food rained down from the  sky for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." Times have changed in  Chewandswallow, and readers will love finding out how storms of  gigantic food threatened normal life until eventually the Falling  Food Company was created, sending food to hungry people around the  world. Ron Barrett's comical, detailed ink-and-watercolor  illustrations and the lively story make this a satisfying sequel  to a delicious classic.Pickles to Pittsburghis an  excellent bedtime book--just keep a snack handy!(Ages 4 to  8)