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  • Published: 20 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780670016440
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $50.00

Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess



Time to pick up all your toys!
Why is Mama making noise?
Mama says it's cleaning day.
Llama only wants to play.

Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama is growing up, but he still loves to play with all his toys! When Mama Llama says it's time to clean up, Llama responds like any child more interested in playing than cleaning . . . by ignoring her! But Mama has an imaginative response of her own. What if she never cleaned? What would happen then? Well, Llama Llama is going to find out! Here is a truly funny take on a childhood chore that all children will relate to and laugh at! And it is sure to be helpful to get kids cleaning up!

Mama Llama teaches Llama Llama a humorous lesson in cleaning up in Anna Dewdney's bestselling Llama Llama series.

Time to pick up all your toys!
Why is Mama making noise?
Mama says it's cleaning day.
Llama only wants to play.

Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama is growing up, but he still loves to play with all his toys! When Mama Llama says it's time to clean up, Llama responds like any child more interested in playing than cleaning . . . by ignoring her! But Mama has an imaginative response of her own. What if she never cleaned? What would happen then? Well, Llama Llama is going to find out! Here is a truly funny take on a childhood chore that all children will relate to and laugh at! And it is sure to be helpful to get kids cleaning up!

  • Published: 20 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780670016440
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $50.00

About the authors

Anna Dewdney

Anna Dewdney passed away in September 2016, at the age of fifty, from cancer. A teacher, mother, and enthusiastic proponent of reading aloud to children, she continually honed her skills as an artist and writer and published her first Llama Llama book in 2005. Her passion for creating extended to home and garden, and she lovingly restored an eighteenth century farmhouse in southern Vermont. She wrote, painted, gardened, and lived there with her partner, Reed, her two daughters, two wirehaired pointing griffons, and one bulldog. Anna was a warm-hearted, wonderful, wise soul who will be forever missed, but whose spirit lives on in her books.

Praise for Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess

"With a carefully crafted rhyming text and comforting painted images that match genuinely the emotion of a toddler's first night away from home, this book is a charming success." --School Library Journal on Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa

"A real charmer that will leave preschoolers giggling and parents appreciating the familiar scenario." --Booklist on Llama Llama Red Pajama

"This book lays out the building blocks of reading in a classroom setting -- from learning the alphabet to sounding out words -- and makes learning how to read look like an exciting adventure." --Common Sense Media on Llama Llama Loves to Read

"Dewdney's tale is bound to become a comical classic." --Kirkus Reviews on Llama Llama Red Pajama

"An involving read-aloud, one that will leave kids and parents hoping Llama has many more adventures ahead." --Publishers Weekly on Llama Llama Mad at Mama

"The expressive animal faces and attention to detail make it a charming addition." --Publishers Weekly on Llama Llama Misses Mama

"A worthy addition to the Llama collection, just right for readers' own sick days."--Kirkus Reviews on Llama Llama Home with Mama

* "Once again, Dewdney conveys a highly relatable source of llama drama with warmth and authentically childlike characters." --Publishers Weekly, starred review of Llama Llama Time to Share