Llama Llama...

Noah was sick for the better part of a week so I recently spent a lot of time reading to him in the recliner. I've been experiencing a bit of a lag with picture books lately. I usually grab a handful of new ones each time I go to the library and they've largely disappointed. Nothing has been horrible, nothing has been great, they've all been kind of BLAH. And so I've been turning to old favorites, like the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. There are 5 of them, the newest being Llama Llama Home With Mama where he is home sick. We got that one at the library a couple weeks ago and I returned it early because though it was cute, I thought it'd be cuter to read while I had an actual sick kid. Ha- see how that worked? We have Llama Llama Misses Mama and Llama Llama Mad at Mama checked out and have been reading those. Llama Llama Misses Mama helped us tremendously with the transition to school last year when Noah cried every morning when I'd drop him off. He and I read it every day and memorized it and recited it on the drive to school. All these books are written in rhyme and have a light message and I find them fun to read. (Note: I find anything that rhymes or is in any way rhythmic fun to read aloud.) They are written primarily for preschoolers/ toddlers and my younger ones are beginning to “age out” of them. I guess that's why I'm reading them so much lately. I know my time with Llama Llama is coming to an end and I'm trying to squeeze as many reads out of them as I can before it's over.