But blow me down, I swear it's true - one llama said, "You want some stew?"

Something strange is going on at the llama farm. The llamas seem to be talking A talking herd of llamas, can that be?

A humorous and charming picture book about a bunch of quirky llamas just trying to be heard. The perfect beginning reader story, designed to entertain and enchant children aged 2-7 while supporting them to enjoy the pleasures of language through clever use of rhyme and repetition. Great for children learning colours and adjectives, too

Featuring:

• 28 pages of lively, fun and colourful illustrations
• Written in engaging rhyme to support beginning readers
• Educational material at the back of the book
• Entertaining and funny
• Hard-wearing premium matte hardback cover
• Case laminate

Why rhyme?

• Developing phonemic awareness early is an important part of learning to read. It teaches children how language works and helps them notice and work with sounds within sounds.
• Children can begin to predict text. This supports children seeing themselves as readers early
• Rhyme helps children experience the rhythm of language and can support reading with expression down the track.
• Rhyme is an important factor for learning to write. It assists a child to understand language and spelling patterns, and common sound elements. For example, word families.
• It helps children develop their oral language skills and studies have shown it can even help children improve their recall and memorisation skills
• Rhyme is so much fun

About the author

Lisa Kalma lives with her husband, son and ancient cat in Canberra, Australia. A primary school teacher with a love of Dr Seuss and Roald Dahl, Lisa loves nothing better than writing stories for children of all ages that make them snort-laugh into their juice.

For more information about Lisa and her books visit www.lisakalma.com.