Best Case Scenario! Llama, Llama, Meets the Babysitter by Anna Dewdney and Reed Duncan

Mama Llama has an announcement. She is going out, and Grandma can't come. Little Llama will have a babysitter!

Llama Llama immediately goes right into disaster mode.

"WILL SHE PLAY MY FAVORITE GAME?"

"WILL SHE EVEN KNOW MY NAME?

Will she fix his favorite snack? What if Mama Llama does not come back?

Llama is both SAD and MAD! He makes a plan to be bad!

"I WON'T HAVE FUN!

INSTEAD I WILL RUN!

But when Mama Llama opens the door, he sees a face he's seen before. It's Molly, the girl at the ice cream store who makes his favorite cones. And not only that, but she has brought a bag full of small ice cream cups and toppings to sample. All's well that begins with ice cream sundaes with chocolate sauce and cherries on top! And then, there's kickball in the backyard with Molly, who never gets too tired.

ICE CREAM, READING, HIDE 'N' SEEK,

LLAMA COULD DO THIS ALL WEEK!

And as Mama Llama tells Llama it's time to hit the sack, Little Llama asks when Molly's coming back, in Anna Dewdney and Reed Duncan's just published, Llama Llama Meets the Babysitter (Viking Books, 2021).

Thankfully for youngsters, author Reed Duncan has taken over the late Anna Dewdney's warm and funny rhyming mother-and-son early childhood stories for youngsters yet to come, along with the delightfully expressive illustrations of JT Morrow.

Share this one with another milestone story, Llama Llama Loose Tooth Drama (Viking Books, 2020).