Crafty Llama
By (Author) Mike Kerr
Illustrated by Renata Liwska
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
1st November 2018
United States
Children
Fiction
Picture storybooks: imagination and play
Hardback
32
Width 235mm, Height 235mm
384g
Llama loves her friend Badger very much. With his birthday approaching, she thinks hard about what she would like to give him as a gift. Badger loves clocks. But Llama doesnt have much money to buy a clock, and she cant make him one by knitting, which is something she loves to do. But she knows a lot of other friends would love her knitted things. So she knits and knits and then sells her wonderful handmade things at a craft fair--something to tame Lions mane, something to carry Elephants trunk, something for turtle when he comes out of his shell. And soon she can buy Badgers gift. Meanwhile, Badger has seen all the lovely knitted things that all their friends are sporting . . . and wishes for something knitted of his own. Maybe for his birthday, Llama will make him something
"Soft-edged, whimsically anthropomorphized animals are downright adorable. . . Young readers . . . will see that despite having different outlooks, there are many ways to work together. A sweet meditation on the value of creating, regardless of use." --Kirkus Reviews
"The illustrations are cozy and delightful, just like the text. A fun and inspiring read-aloud for student makers." - School Library Journal
Mike Kerr is an illustrator and educator in Calgary, Alberta, Canada but claims to be better known as the husband of childrens book illustrator Renata Liwska. When Mike is not spell checking emails for her, he illustrates, teaches, animates, sketches, curates and sometimes writes. www.wronghand.com Renata Liwska has been drawing for as long as she can remember. She is the author and illustrator Little Panda and Red Wagon. Renata is also the illustrator of Nikolai the Only Bear; A Puppy is for Loving; the New York Times bestseller The QuietBook and its companions, The Loud Book, and The ChristmasQuiet Book; Once Upon a Memory; and Doreen Cronins Boom SnotTwitty.While Renata is originally from Warsaw, Poland, she now lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband. www.renataliwska.com