Et 2, Taco? Dragons Love Tacos 2 : The Sequel by Adam Rubin

HEY, KID! WHY ARE YOUR DRAGON FRIENDS CRYING?

NO WONDER THEY'RE UPSET!

Tacos have gone extinct.

Everybody loves tacos, but as we know dragons love tacos more than anyone!

REMEMBER THAT TIME WE HAD AN AWESOME TACO PARTY?

What has gone wrong? It seems that there has been an interruption of the supply chain and over-consumption by consumers, and... now?

THERE ARE NO MORE TACOS. NONE. NADA. NIL.

And as we all know, when dragons aren't happy, nobody's happy!

The Taco Lobby is steamed, and they roll into action in no time flat!

Tortilla puns aside, it comes down to some human kids to fill the void. And they have a plan. They will fire up ye olde time machine and zip back to the time when there was a plentitude of tacos for the planet and bring back a fresh supply. There will again be, to, er, coin a metaphoric phrase, a taco truck on every corner.

What could go wrong?

Well, calibrating the rusty old wayback machine takes some tinkering. Its first voyage finds the mission crew back in the terrible time of the too-fiery-for-dragons'-tummies taco sauce, and a second try is even more alarming, another plane of existence where--horrors!--

TACOS LOVE DRAGONS?

Hey, WAIT! We can't have tacos eating our dragons? A subsequent valiant try takes them into an alternate world where there are dragons, but these dragons are, um, to put it delicately, decidedly different.

DRAGONS LOVE DIAPERS?

Will the intrepid time travelers track down the time of superabundant tacos and restore peace to the planet? There's many a slip between taco and lip, but the fun is in getting there, in Adam Rubin's spicy sequel to his hot-selling Dragons Love Tacos (Read my salsa-splattered review here), the piping hot-off-the-press Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel (Dial Books, 2017). Already a hot seller, Rubin's sequel has his heroic kids teaching dragons how to "cultivate" their favorite foods (Taco trees? Really?) and gives artist Daniel Salmieri an opportunity to let his riotous dragons romp and rumble again in his pencil, gouache, and watercolored illustrations that fill each page with witty details. Separate or together, dragons and tacos are popular fare, and this new one by this dynamic duo is a tasty treat for young readers.