Friday, June 21, 2013

Pickles to Pittsburgh (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs #2) by Judi Barrett –fNOT RECOMMENDED

Barrett, Judi Pickles to Pittsburgh (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs #2) 34 pgs. Little Simon; Boardbook Edition, 2013. $7.19.  Content: Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: G; Violence: G.
As sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, we find a dream sequence where
the two children re-visit to the land of Chewandswallow. The original inhabitants have returned and are using the food overload to aid the world with its hunger problems.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a great sequel with a wonderful message about not wasting food and sharing with others. But why they would re-release it as a board book is totally beyond me. The pictures are too detailed to be the needed eye-catching for toddlers that would be given a board book.  There is too much text, squeezed in at a small font size, to make it a comfortable read for grown-up eyes. While I recommend the story for Early Elementary, which has been out since 1997, this re-release in Board book format is a total loss.  

EL- NOT RECOMMENDED Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author.

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