Dragones y tacos 2. La continuación

Dragons Love Tacos #2

by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illustrator), Teresa Mlawer (Translator)

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller about non-spicy tacos, and the dragons who love them--now in Spanish!

Esta divertida y condimentada continuación del gran éxito en ventas según el New York Times es ideal para la hora del cuento.

¡Noticias de última hora! Se acaba de descubrir que NO QUEDAN MÁS TACOS en ninguna parte del mundo. Nos encontramos frente a un serio problema porque, según sabes, a los dragones les encantan los tacos. Si hubiera alguna manera de que los dragones pudieran viajar a través del tiempo, al pasado, antes de que se acabaran los tacos, ¡podrían recoger montones de tacos y traerlos! Es un magnífico plan siempre y cuando no incluya salsa picante. Recuerda lo que pasó la última vez…

Los galardonados creadores de Fiesta secreta de pizza regresan con esta «empachosa» y divertida continuación del fenómeno en ventas Dragones y tacos.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Dragons, Humor, Fiction, Food, Fantasy

48 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2017

About the author

Adam Rubin is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of ten critically-acclaimed picture books, including the Those Darn Squirrels trilogy, Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, Secret Pizza Party, Robo-Sauce and El Chupacabras (winner of the 2020 Texas Blue Bonnet award). In between writing projects, he designs and collects optical illusions, puzzles and games. His favorite color is blue, his favorite food is fried chicken, and his favorite animal is the otter. Adam currently lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews

[Tim]

You know what's way worse than dragons and tacos? A world without tacos. It's a horrible world. A sad world. A world we want to avoid.

You know what's better than dragons and tacos? Time travel with dragons and tacos!

Well, no, that's not actually better. The first book really was an amazingly good children's book. One of the funniest I've ever read, and I really enjoyed reading it to my daughter every time. The second book is honestly a rehash of the first, but with added time travel shenanigans. It's funny, but doesn't have the same re-read factor of the first. Still well worth a look. After all, everyone loves dragons and tacos. 3/5 stars

[Jane]

My dudes. This book starts off in a rather upsetting way. Brace yourselves. The world has run out of tacos. The dragons are devastated! (I am too!)



There is, of course, only one solution to this dilemma: one must use a time machine to go back in time to retrieve a taco so that a taco tree can be planted, thus saving the world from being tragically taco-less.



However, as you may recall from our first outing with these dragons, nothing ever seems to go as planned when they're around. Will we be able to survive interdimensional time travel? Or will the world be forever devoid of tacos?

I mean it's a children's book. Of course it all works out in the end! (With plenty of tacos for everyone.)

I liked this book -- maybe even a bit more than the first one.

[Jon Nakapalau]

Zombie apocalypse...giant asteroid...alien invasion...NOTHING COMPARED TO A WORLD WITHOUT TACOS! A tacoless world needs brave chrononauts to go back in time and get at least ONE TACO so that it can be planted and grow - BECAUSE DRAGONS LOVE TACOS! (wonderful book :)

[donna backshall]

Heck, everyone loves tacos. AMIRIGHT? Even the spicy ones, though we know some people (and dragons) might have some tummy issues with those.

These books have plenty of humor an adult will enjoy, but I do wonder if kids will get some of it. In fact, I wonder if I "got" all of it.

Like, why does a time machine take dragons to a place where dragons love diapers? I don't think that's time travel, I think that's movement into parallel worlds. But what do I know? I'm just along for the ride, and this book is hilarious.

Bonus if you get the book in a format that allows the author, Adam Rubin, to read it aloud to you and your child.

[Lata]

Amusing, but I didn’t find it as funny as book one.

[Erth]

News alert! It has just been discovered that there are NO MORE TACOS left anywhere in the world. This is a huge problem because, as you know, dragons love tacos. If only there was a way for the dragons to travel back in time, to before tacos went extinct. Then they could grab lots of tacos and bring them back! It's the perfect plan, as long as there's no spicy salsa. You remember what happened last time . . .

[La Coccinelle]

Don't milk it.

Compared to the goofy and entertaining Dragons Love Tacos , the sequel is as flat as a tortilla. The idea of dragons loving tacos is silly enough, but it works. What doesn't work is a ridiculous plot about the disappearance of all the world's tacos, necessitating a trip back in time to find a taco that can be planted and grown into a taco tree.

Overall, this is just disappointing. If you enjoy the absurd, you might like this. Otherwise, just stick with the first book.

[Laura McLoughlin]

Dragons, tacos, time-travel shenanigans, what's not to love?

[Moonkiszt]

Read as part of our grandma reads sessions.

Dragons Love Tacos - the first led to this sequel wherein tacos have gone extinct and a solution for the bereft and hungry dragon population must be found.

Time travel is key, and aliens may be involved (illustrations imply same).

Story makes little sense, but all littles were highly satisfied, with requests for repeat reads in future.

Hence - 4 stars hidden in bean/cheese burritos.

[Mid-Continent Public Library]

Everybody hold on to your hats because it has just been discovered that there are no more tacos in the entire world! In this sequel “Dragon Loves Tacos” by Adam Rubin, the dragons are determined to find a way to go back in time to find more tacos to bring to their timeline. What would you do if you ran out of tacos? Enjoy this one now by checking out a copy on Mymcpl.org or searching for it on Overdrive! – Reviewed by Stephanie at MCPL Reading Rocket

[Earl]

An eagerly anticipated picture book that readers of the original will love as much! It involves time traveling and silliness and, of course, dragons who love tacos. I can already hear the laughter (from the future!) as this gets read! Publishes May 2nd.

[Arnav]

Dragons love tacos. A true representation of proper literature. Such a masterful work of art and an unimaginable sequel to the first work. The illustrations are on point to works by Picasso. No one could come near to how beautiful this work is. Wow. Just wow.

[Mila Reads Alot ☕]

... Everyone loves tacos <3 ...

[Kari]

This is simply a silly tale of dragons and tacos. Both are equally loved in this family, so it seemed like a no brainer book. The pictures are just as silly as the book. This is definitely a book to gravitate towards when you just want something fun.

[Grace]

Dragons ✅ Tacos ✅ Time Machine✅. An excellent sequel, we love nonsensical stories, Grace makes a fire sound when the dragons shoot their fire.

[Celebrilomiel]

2.5 stars

This book is like the personification of a four-year-old boy's imagination. It's wacky and creative, with a puerile sense of humor, only tenuous ties to reality, and plenty of randomness. It's almost cute, but like a preschooler, it has left the baby stage where anything is adorable but it doesn't yet have the capacity for intentional humor that is actually funny. If a kid told you a knock-knock joke that didn't make sense, you'd probably laugh anyway, and you might think the kid was cute, but you wouldn't tell the joke to one of your friends. This book is like that. It'll probably be a hit with the preschool set, and parents might get a kick out of reading it once, but it won't be one of those books that parents will love too and actually want to read over and over.

[Meg]

Dragons love tacos, and we all already know that. Dragons also shouldn't consume super spicy salsa, or bad things happen involving fire breath, but we already know that, too.

But what happens when the dragons run OUT of tacos? That is something that no one should have to experience, but thankfully, there's a cure! With the help of time travel, diapers, and a really determined boy, tacos will be growing on trees in no time!

In the sequel to Adam Rubin's delightful Dragons Love Tacos, the fun, funny, and fantastical relationship between dragons and tacos returns once more, and it isn't a story to be missed.

[Lauren Stoolfire]

Such a fun follow-up! It goes too quickly!

[Kris]

Meh. Just doesn't have the charm of the original. It does have time-travel, though, so that's a plus.

[Becky]

Not quite as good as the original, but there’s still dragons. And tacos. And the paradoxes of time travel.

My 7 year old’s comment: “Why did he bring the dragons? They’ll just eat all the tacos!”

[Alexandra Calaway]

DAENERYS TARGARYEN IS IN DRAGONS LOVE TACOS 2.

[Dover Free Library]

Tamara writes.....Just one more reason why I appreciate being a children's librarian. I get paid to read really good books like this one. Check it out now at Dover Free Library.

[Kimberly]

It would be pretty difficult to top the original. This is very cute but not nearly as humorous. Fans of the first will certainly enjoy this tacolicious sequel.

[Chance Lee]

A little too zany for me, for the sake of being zany. Dragons love tacos. But now they're out of tacos, so they travel back in time to get tacos, but the time machine is busted and they have to eat tacos to get back to the present? I don't know.

The final page says "everyone loves tacos" and has images of Gandhi, Frankenstein's monster, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Beyonce (I think), Simone Biles (maybe), and Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's Stinky Cheese Man.

And an alien.

Random for the sake of being random, it seems.

[Bashon Mann]

Such a twist.

[Angela De Groot]

Super silly and fun. A strong sequel. Love the underlying message: don't let tacos (or anything) go extinct. See if you recognize the characters on the last page. Love the mix of historical and literary characters. Yay GOT.

[Penny Ramirez]

Cute. Waiting to hear what the shorter reviewers at my house have to say!

And yes, we all love dragons, and we all love tacos, so - another favorite.

[Sadia Mansoor]

It wasn't as great as the first one! I mean dragons love diapers!! Seriously?? -_-
Not at all creative or funny..

[Roy]

great book

[Becky B]

The dragons are in despair because they ate ALL of the tacos. Confronted by the dour circumstances the boy decides drastic times call for drastic measures and fires up the time machine. It should be simple to nip back in time, grab a few tacos, return to the present and plant them to grow more. Right?

I feel like all time travel stories (well, the good ones) have to have a little zany mixed in because, after all, time travel is a bit unpredictable. And what a great way to introduce kids to that genre! It's funny. It's zany, but also predictably zany (so kids can practice their reading strategies of making predictions and reading between the lines of those foreshadowing things). Now I need to go read the first book in the series because I thought I had but after reading this, I'm not so sure. I loved the voice in this and the imaginative world. I can see why the first book is insanely popular in our elementary library. Pick this one up if you're looking for an intro timetravel book, a zany humorous story for an imaginative reader, or something to distract a bored kid.