Llama Library

This is very much a reading for pleasure title! Any children with a penchant for llamas will be instantly won over by the sheer variety on offer – and better still, the idea that you can loan them from the library! The title continues with the main character choosing a series of problematic ‘pet’ llamas to take home, only to find when they get there that perhaps another kind would have been better after all. Each time she exchanges her llama for another variety, but each time they cause further trouble… until she returns to the library and considers dinosaur loans instead.

The illustrations in this title are bold and colourful and busy, providing little readers with lots to help them extend their imaginations. The text is easily accessible and, generally, the rhyming format aids the ‘read aloud’ quality – though on occasions the rhythm is lost. It is lovely too, to have the concept of the library put front and centre – a reminder to children (and parents) everywhere of how essential this service is, though in the case the issue is that the concept of what is being loaned is so preposterous that, arguably, the sentiment with regards to libraries is lost. This is unlikely to deter young llama lovers though, who are, without question, the children most likely to pick up and love this title.