Author/illustrator: Anna Dewdney
Genre: Poetry
Awards: New York Times Best Seller Series
Grades: PK-2
Llama Llama is impatiently waiting for the holidays to come. He goes to the store with his mom, bakes cookies, goes to school and makes gifts, but still is impatient and wants the holidays to hurry up and come. As his mom is decorating the tree, Llama Llama gets upset since he has been waiting a long time to open presents. His mom picks him and explains that it is not all about the presents, but the time spent with loved ones.
I would use this book in my class to start a lesson on holidays. I would teach my students the importance of being patient as the holidays get closer and closer. This book would be great to read to kindergartners or first graders because it is a fun, easy to read book with rhyming words. They will be able to pick up the book after I finish reading it and read it as well. I would use this for a culture unit in social studies or for a rhyming lesson in language arts. It is a book from the author's series, Llama Llama, so I would definitely try to get the rest of the books to get students hooked on them.
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