Llama Llama Red Pajama

My son was introduced to this book at his play school. He was over the moon when he found that he had his very own book at home. He looks forward to bedtime with his favorite bedtime story. I think it also helped with transitioning him to his own room. We read it every night and he loves to pull the covers up like its illustrated in the book. He also says "sorry mommy" to me at the point the llama mama comes upstairs! There hasn't been a night my son hasn't smiled after reading llama llama and it has been nearly a month since we got it. As a parent I too enjoy reading it and the illustrations are very very cute, as is the rhythm of the story. Highly recommend!

My 2.5 year old daughter loves the new Llama Llama Netflix show (and so do I), great stories with positive lessons behind them. I highly recommend it over Paw Patrol. With that in mind I purchased this book as it had great reviews and people repeatedly said "What a great bedtime book....". Wow...this is quite possibly the worst bedtime book I could read to my daughter at her age and current understanding of the world. It is equivalent to me watching "IT" right before bed. Quick plot summary- Mama Llama (ML) puts Llama Llama (LL) to bed and goes down stairs. LL doesn't fall asleep and starts getting scared and crying. Each page flips between LL getting progressively more frightened and scared and ML doing chores down stairs and not hearing him cry. There is a climax to the story where LL is filled with terror that his mama is gone forever and the illustration reflects that fear very well (even if you child didn't understand the words yet). ML finally hears the crying and runs in (also with a look for terror) and soothes LL and gives him love till he calms down and falls asleep. Lesson of the story - "Being alone is scary and if you cry hard enough and long enough your parents will always come give you attention" First night after reading this book as a bedtime story what do think happened..... Second night same thing..... Third night.....book is now hidden in a closet and will become a gift to a family we don't like. We spent a lot of time and hard work sleep training our daughter and this story almost unraveled all of that. Its been a couple months and she still referred to "crying for Mama...Llama Llama...sleeping..etc" and she now cries for us more in the night (before the book was basically never). So buy at your own risk but I recommend trying a different book in this series. "Llama Llama and Friends" was our second try and its great.

My son is just about two years old, and we bought this book to read to him. The rhymes and illustrations are really lovely, but the themes around it are terribly dated. 1) Mom is at the kitchen sink and yakety yaking on the telephone. Hello sexism. 2) My son is not yet scared of the dark, but this book almost teaches a child that there is something scary about the dark. And the illustrations while really cool looking, convey this! 3) Almost teaches a child bad behavior, yell to get parent to come quickly. 4) Lastly mother accuses child of being 'dramatic' Its actually fun to read aloud, but we decided to use it for a month or two while he is still very young and then give it away. We tried returning it and amazon asked us to keep it.

I've bought several copies of this book. The first one was for my DOG. He loves it and gets so relaxed by hearing the repetitive words of Llama Llama Red Pajama and he really likes it when I use my voice to be Llama's mama when she is racing up the stairs to find out why Little Llama is in such a tizzy. I make this sort of shrill yelling, like 'aahhhhhh, aahhhhhhh, aahhhhh,' to portray Llama's mama as she is running up the stairs and my American Bull Dog gets so happy and excited with that sound. HE REALLY DOES KNOW THE WHOLE BOOK. I've purchased other copies for friends. I realized the other night when I was feeling a little alone, and I was reading it by myself... that the book is really about comforting ME and so then I thought well if it can make a grown adult feel so loved, and a big mcfatty of a dog definitely feel SO LOVED, then I can only imagine how much it must fill the hearts of young children. I discovered LLRP books about a year ago and was so surprised to learn that it was first published many years ago. How had I not heard of this wonderful book and series of books by Anna Dewdney?! Then I learned that Mrs. Dewdney has passed away and my heart and mind is filled with so much sadness...I hope she knows how much love her books bring to so many. She had to be one of the most wonderful persons in the world to have created so much beauty and love. I got another copy today from Amazon to send to a special child I love. I also got the LLRP doll...for myself. Oh the places he will go with me! IMAGINE MY SURPRISE TO SEE A STICKER ON THE BOOK, LLRP, THAT SAID IT IS SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES! I can't wait; I'm so happy!