Llama Llama Red Pajama
It's bedtime, but Baby Llama needs a drink and calls for his Mama—what is taking Mama Llama so long? Children and their parents will easily recognize the emotional escalation Baby Llama goes through from the first hint of being alone to the full blown “weeping, wailing for his Mama” tantrum in this silly and reassuring bedtime book. The deepening background colors in Baby Llama's bedroom provide a contrast to the white of Mama working in the kitchen that helps accent the Llama drama.
Pennsylvania Center for the Book Awards
Book Activities & Discussion Ideas
After enjoying the story once or twice, read it again, but first ask your child to listen carefully for words with the same ending sound. Play a little hide and seek game with the sounds in the story and see if your child can pick up some of the rhyming pairs as you read them.
Point out to families that this book has a fun sing-song rhythm when it is read aloud because of the rhyme pattern. Note that some of the rhyme pairs stand out in the book with bold colored letters like "pouts" and "shouts", but some of the rhyme pairs are harder to see in print because the ending letters are not the same like "near" and "here."