Anna Dewdney Author and Illustrator By Shaina Lacher

Writing Career Anna Dewdney began her career illustrating several chapter books in children’s literature. Her first self-illustrated book was Llama Red Pajama, (2005), who’s main character was a baby llama. A majority of the text in her work is written in verse and utilizes rhyming. Due to Dewdney’s reading advocacy work, many of her books are used to promote literacy and reading.

Writing Career • Dewdney also visited Dollywood and got to see her first two books, Llama Red Pajama, and Llama Mad at Mama, made into a musical. • There are eight different languages that Dewdney’s books have been translated to. • Including: Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Polish, Spanish, and Russian.

Llama Books

Other Books

List of Books Written by Dewdney (as of 2013) • Grumpy Gloria • Llama Hoppity-Hop • Llama and the Bully Goat • Llama Holiday Drama • Llama Home With Mama • Llama Mad at Mama • Llama Misses Mama • Llama Shopping Drama • Llama Nighty-Night • Llama Red Pajama • Llama Time To Share • Llama Zippety. Zoom • Llama Wakey-Wake • Nobunny’s Perfect • Roly Pangolin • Llama Birthday Party! • Llama Jingle Bells • Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too (coming out May 2014)

Quotes • “No more of this llama drama!” • “It’s a pretty good life, and it took me a long time to get here” • “The most important thing to know about me, really, is that I’m a mom”

Dewdney is actively involved in many environmental awareness and conservation efforts. Particularly with Pangolin conservation in southeast Asia.

Pangolin Facts • Pangolins eat mostly ants and grubs. • Pangolins have fuzzy, scruffy tummies, a bit like dogs. • Pangolins have a very strong sense of smell. • Pangolins protect themselves by rolling tight into a ball so they are completely covered with their scales. • Pangolins are the only known mammal to possess scales. • It is said that this armor of scales can deflect a bullet from a. 303 rifle fired from 100 meters! • Pangolins have no teeth! • Pangolins have one baby at a time. Baby pangolins ride on mommy pangolins’ tails! • Pangolins have incredibly long tongues (up to 16 inches!) that are attached to their pelvises! • Pangolins usually walk on their hind legs. • Some pangolins can live in trees. Pangolins can sometimes spray like a skunk. • Pangolins are NOT anteaters, but have their own genus, Philodota. The family is Manidae.

Related Websites • Anna Dewdney Website • Dewdney on Good. Reads http: //www. annadewdney. com/ Annas_website/Home. html • Llama Website http: //www. llamabook. com /index 2. php • Save the Pangolins http: //www. goodreads. com/auth or/show/227717. Anna_Dewdne y • Dewdney on Scholastic http: //www. scholastic. com/teac hers/bookwizard/books-by/anna -dewdney http: //savepangolins. org/ • Wikipedia Author Info http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Ann a_Dewdney •