Still, the redundancy of the title, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, underscores both collaborators’ inherent skepticism about sequels. “Kids will still get it if they haven’t read Dragons Love Tacos, but if they have, they’ll even have more fun reading it.” “So much of the humor comes from revisiting tropes from the first book and twisting them,” he said. Though Rubin noted that it took him quite some time to concoct a storyline that “felt fresh, worthy, and not entirely derivative,” he finally landed on the notion of a world without tacos and the dragons’ need to travel back in time to save them. It is a premise-driven, silly book, and Dan and I knew that to do a companion, we needed a good, solid story that played off the idea of the first book.” It wasn’t necessary to do a sequel to Dragons Like Tacos, since there weren’t fully developed characters kids would wonder about. “And I think when that happens, the books become, in a sense, a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, and eventually the quality starts to suffer.
“I look at a lot of companion picture books and see people trying to replicate success of an earlier book-sometimes over and over,” he explained. Rubin, whose other collaborations with Salmieri include Robo-Sauce and Secret Pizza Party, initially resisted the idea of creating a second tale starring the hungry dragons. Rather than living in a taco-less universe, the young protagonist and his trusty dog fire up their time machine to travel back to an era when tacos are still plentiful. While things get disastrously heated in Dragons Love Tacos when the beasts accidentally consume tacos embellished with spicy salsa, in their second outing they are faced with a calamity: tacos have become extinct. The dragons’ situation is considerably grimmer in the follow-up tale. Executive editor Kate Harrison will edit the book, which has an announced first printing of 250,000 copies. Lauri Hornik, president and publisher of Dial Books for Young Readers, negotiated the deal for world rights with Jennifer Joel of ICM Partners representing author Rubin, and Rebecca Sherman of Writers House Literary Agency representing illustrator Salmieri. It’s a companion to the original from Dial, which has more than one million copies in print in North America.
Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri dished out heaps of humor in their 2012 picture book, Dragons Love Tacos-and fans will be treated to a second course next May, when the ravenous, tacos-devouring dragon clan returns in Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel.
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