{"id":19297,"date":"2016-09-07T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=19297"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:30:25","slug":"celebrating-anna-dewdney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=19297","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Anna Dewdney"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were shocked to learn the tragic news of the passing of author Anna Dewdney. We were lucky enough to host her at the store, and hear her own voice share her Llama Llama stories with children, and see her draw those adorable characters on a big easel pad. We are proud that she was a fellow Vermonter, who charmed a nation of children with her little woolly guy.
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\nIn addition to the Llama Llama books, Anna wrote and illustrated several wonderful standalone picture books, including Grumpy Gloria<\/em> (a bulldog who just needs a little attention), Nobunny’s Perfect<\/em> (a reassuring book about toddler foibles), Roly-Poly Pangolin<\/em> (a cautious little fellow), Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too<\/em> (a sweet father-daughter adventure), and she illustrated Matt Christopher’s Peach Street Mudders<\/em>\u00a0baseball chapter book series. She also re-illustrated a beautiful version of Margaret Wise Brown’s Christmas in the Barn<\/em>, which will be out from HarperCollins\u00a0later this month, and Llama Llama Yum Yum Yum<\/em>, coming from Grosset & Dunlap\u00a0in October. There are one or two other books in the pipeline as well, so we will have a little more time to enjoy Dewdney’s exuberant, funny, emotion-rich art and simple, confident\u00a0way with rhyme and rhythm.
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\nA whole country of little llamas were\u00a0very lucky to enjoy her\u00a0too-brief but remarkably productive stay on this planet.\u00a0Here’s a gallery of the Llamas, who will, indeed, miss Mama.
\nIf you have any favorite memories of Anna or her books, please share them in the comments section. We would love to hear your stories.
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\nAnd the board books:
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She added a lot of color to our world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}