Anna Dewdney

Anna DewdneyAuthor and IllustratorBy Shaina Lacher

Writing CareerAnna Dewdney began her career illustrating several chapter books in children’s literature. Her first self-illustrated book was Llama 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 Llama Red Pajama, and Llama 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 Llama Books

Other Books

List of Books Written by Dewdney(as of 2013)

• Grumpy Gloria• Llama Hoppity-Hop• Llama Llama and the Bully

Goat• Llama Llama Holiday Drama• Llama Llama Home With

Mama• Llama Llama Mad at Mama• Llama Llama Misses Mama• Llama Llama Shopping

Drama• Llama Llama Trick or Treat

• Llama Llama Nighty-Night• Llama Llama Red Pajama• Llama Llama Time To Share• Llama Llama Zippety-Zoom• Llama Wakey-Wake• Nobunny’s Perfect• Roly Poly Pangolin• Llama Llama Birthday

Party!• Llama 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”

Particularly with Pangolin conservation in southeast Asia.

Dewdney is actively involved in many environmental awareness and conservation efforts.

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 Web

sitehttp://www.annadewdney.com/Annas_website/Home.html

• Llama Llama Websitehttp://www.llamallamabook.com/index2.php

• Save the Pangolinshttp://savepangolins.org/

• Wikipedia Author Infohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Dewdney

• Dewdney on GoodReadshttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/227717.Anna_Dewdney

• Dewdney on Scholastichttp://www.scholastic.com/teachers/bookwizard/books-by/anna-dewdney