Is Your Mama a Llama by: Deborah Guarino

Is your mama a llama? By: Deborah Guarino.
Book Review
1. Type of book: Animal story, predictable, books with repetitions and reinforcement.
2. Format: Paperback.
3. Multicultural: No.
4. Awards: No.
5. Age: 4-5 years old.
6. Brief Synopsis: This book is about a Llama who is ask to many types of animal if his mom is a llama, and every animal like the bat, swan, cow, seal, and kangaroo answer no, and every animal describes his mom looks like, and where they life.
7. Interaction: The teacher or the person who is reading the book can ask question about, you know who a mama llama looks like, to the child. And the child can ask, and other children they can participate to.
8. Quality: a) Character development --- At the end of the history the llama found his mama.
b) Color---- Calm, soft colors (blue, pink, green, white.)
c) Repetition--- The llama ask the same question to 5 different types
Animals.
d) Sensitivity---- The llama feels sad, and seal ask a question to polite
and friendly.
e) Realistic dialogue--- The llama is asking a really question.
9. Debrief: a) How would you feel if you ever got lost?
b) What do you think how the llama is feel about he do not where is
her mama.
c)what is the llama doing in the story?
d) Why is the llama sad?
e) What do the animals answer after being asked if there is a llama?
10. Activities:
Trace an outline of a large llamas onto paper, make copies of this outline for each child, let the children colored with pencils ands glue some eyes.
Make llama with cartoon and the children can put glue and put ears, eyes and the hair to, if you give all those materials.
Outside the classroom in a sandbox put in there animals by the farm and the llama to.

-Denisse E.