When his momma asks him what kind of bread he would prefer, he has had enough and throws a tantrum that sends contents of the cart onto the floor. Little llama is annoyed with everything and everyone in the store, shopping is really not where he wants to be. This is the first, but certainly not the last time that I expect to read it in 2016.īaby llama wants to play, but since it is Saturday it is time to go shopping. I think this is one of the weakest in the series-trite rhymes, teaches kids they should be patient with their parents because their parents will buy them ice cream, etc.-but as luck would have it, it is probably Jayden's favorite. Jayden loves the Llama books, I presume because they tap into real fears and anxieties that kids experience. Llama gets impatient for the treat and dumps all of Mama's groceries onto the supermarket floor. This time, mean Mama Llama insists on dragging little Llama out shopping and makes the rookie mistake of promising him a 'treat' when the errands are through. Though most of the books on his shelf are 50 pages or less, I have read most of them enough times that they may as well be Gone with the Wind or one of the other of the overlong tomes that I have reviewed.Īnyway, the first book up this year is Llama Llama Mad at Mama, one of the sequels in an uneven series about a boy llama who finds plenty of drama in every daily situation and can be counted on to burst into a fit around page 25 of every book he's in. It's the first day of a new year, and I figure that makes it as good a day as any to start keeping track of the many, many books I read with my son Jayden. My face when my kid wants me to read him this book, which happens pretty much every day.

Mad at mama