Llama Llama Mad at Mama

Every child get angry. It is important that at a young age children learn how to deal with and manage their anger in an appropriate way. The best way to do this is through experience, but also showing them positive examples of times characters or people worked through their anger. Anna Dewdney author and illustrator of Llama Llama Mad at Mama does a great job expressing the anger a little llama has and how he works through it. In the end he works it out with his mama and ends up having fun at the store, where he didn't want to go in the first place. 

Throughout this entire book the story on each page rhymes. I think this makes the book even more enjoyable for children. The font for the rhyming words are bold or in different colors so it is easy for younger children to point them out. The illustrations are honestly what drew me into this book. They are large and beautiful! I really like how Dewdney picked llamas as the main characters of this book. Since llamas aren't very common animals, it is an opportunity for children to learn about them, also llama rhymes with a lot of other words, so it was a good choice there too. 

I would definitely see this book in my classroom library. Like I mentioned earlier, children need to learn about emotions and how to deal with them, and I think this book is a great way to teach them how to deal with anger. Anger can be a tricky one to tackle, because usually when children are angry, they loose all control, but little llama models the proper way to pick up after yourself and apologize after you have a little angry fit.