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Dragons Love Tacos #2
Les dragons adorent les tacos 2
The hilarious sequel to the smokin hot New York Times best seller, perfect for story time
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 . . .
The award-winning creators of Robo-Sauce and Secret Pizza Party return with a gut-bustingly hilarious companion to the bestselling phenomenon Dragons Love Tacos."
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 . . .
The award-winning creators of Robo-Sauce and Secret Pizza Party return with a gut-bustingly hilarious companion to the bestselling phenomenon Dragons Love Tacos."
44 pages, Hardcover
First published May 2, 2017
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About the author
Adam Rubin
29 books399 followersAdam 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.
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February 13, 2021
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
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
March 19, 2019
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 liked this book -- maybe even a bit more than the first one.
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 liked this book -- maybe even a bit more than the first one.
July 15, 2017
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 :)
April 16, 2020
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.
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.
September 29, 2019
Amusing, but I didn’t find it as funny as book one.
July 30, 2022
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 . . .
December 31, 2020
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.
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.
May 26, 2017
Dragons, tacos, time-travel shenanigans, what's not to love?
June 7, 2020
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.
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.
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April 28, 2020Everybody 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
February 9, 2017
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.
May 20, 2025
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.
January 19, 2019
... Everyone loves tacos <3 ...
January 21, 2024
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.
September 23, 2018
Dragons ✅ Tacos ✅ Time Machine✅. An excellent sequel, we love nonsensical stories, Grace makes a fire sound when the dragons shoot their fire.
July 2, 2017
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.
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.
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February 17, 2017Dragons 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.
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.
October 2, 2017
Such a fun follow-up! It goes too quickly!
February 3, 2021
Meh. Just doesn't have the charm of the original. It does have time-travel, though, so that's a plus.
February 27, 2023
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!”
My 7 year old’s comment: “Why did he bring the dragons? They’ll just eat all the tacos!”
December 31, 2017
DAENERYS TARGARYEN IS IN DRAGONS LOVE TACOS 2.
July 7, 2017
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.
August 8, 2017
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.
July 25, 2017
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.
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.
May 26, 2017
Such a twist.
March 15, 2019
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.
May 3, 2017
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.
And yes, we all love dragons, and we all love tacos, so - another favorite.
August 15, 2017
It wasn't as great as the first one! I mean dragons love diapers!! Seriously?? -_-
Not at all creative or funny..
Not at all creative or funny..
May 28, 2025
great book
June 14, 2019
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.
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.
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