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This was a great way of representing anxiety and how all the small worries can take over your life and make things hard! A perfect picture-book to use to discuss worries with kids, and love how it also included the helpful tip on how to make it easier as well.

Definitely recommend!

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Omg. This is the cutest book that discusses feelings. My kiddos and I truly enjoyed this story and the pictures/illustrations were beautiful. This would be a great book to add to your house or classroom.

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Rhymes are cute, love the Llama art. Excellent lessons. I think my kids would have really enjoyed this book.

5 stars

Was a super cute story about how our emotions can stick with us and grow if we don’t stop and talk to someone. It’s important to understand our feelings and know it’s ok to talk to someone and this story puts it in perspective when the llama grows and causes a ruckus.

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For Alex Allen, having everyday worries is a big deal. And stress just follows. But what happens when his worries manifest? It turns into a drama llama. But Alex's llama makes a mess of everything, from knocking dishes around to making a mess of the art projects. For Alex, all he needs is to express his feelings, and his llama shrinks down to an average size. It's a hilarious take on stress and anxiety as they form into a drama llama. Everyone deals with it in different ways, and it happens even to Alex. It is a heartwarming picture book of being yourself and how each one of us copes with the idea of stress in general. A fun read.

Drama Llama
4.5 Stars

I laughed out loud at this adorably funny picture book. The illustrations are bright, colorful, and at times very silly! I appreciate how this book's artwork does an excellent job showing how anxiety can take on a life of its own. Drama Llama shows children what happens if we can't get our worries under control, and the importance of voicing our fears to a trusted adult.

Overall, a great addition to any library. I'd highly recommend Drama Llama. Books like these are what I use, as a behavioral health nurse, to teac6h kids about anxiety. Reading a book is a gentle, non-confrontational way to approach this very difficult topic. Talking with a trusted adult is important, but I wish this book covered deep breathing exercises.

Thank you, NetGalley and Source Books Kids, for providing me with a digital ARC for an honest review.

This is the cutest children’s book. My son and I both really enjoyed this story. The illustrations are adorable. I loved the discussion about different emotions and all the different things the drama llama did. The inclusion of how to calm a llama at the end of the book was great. I think this book would be a hit being read in a classroom with young children!

Y’all this book was absolutely precious! Being a mama with anxiety this was such a relatable read. My kiddos lovedddd the story and all the illustrations. If you have some little readers in your house, be sure to grab this one!

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Stories about dealing with fears or anxiety are very popular right now in children's literature. The Drama Llama by Rachel Morrisoe visualizes a child's fears as a large, clumsy llama that gets in the way and makes his life difficult. And the bigger the fears grow, the bigger the llama gets and the worse the llama's behavior becomes. Ella Okstad's delicately colored illustrations are whimsical and humorous. When the llama's behavior becomes too much to bear, the child's teacher helps them to talk about their worries and to explain a few things about how feelings work. In the end, the llama is not vanquished but as the child learns to name and talk about their emotions, becomes something of a friend. This book could be a great introduction to talking about emotions with young children.

The Drama Llama was a really fun book with great illustrations. It helps kids to visualize their worries and anxiety and helps them know they aren't the only ones with those feelings and how to live with these feelings. I also appreciate how anxiety isn't being shown as yet another dark cloud/monster/etc.

This is a great book to look at worries and anxiety. The Llama is really funny, and a lot of children, young and old will be able to relate. A great book to talk about occasional worry and anxiety and how to deal with it.

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This story and the colourful graphics will appeal to very young children and older ones as well. The llama is adorable and can be used by teachers, parents and caregivers to explain worry and occasional anxiety to children.

Alex Allen is a curious child but sometimes his worries overwhelm him and they manifest as a cute pink llama. But when his worries get the better of him, the llama grows and grows until it's beyond his control. He has the typical worries that affect a lot of children: not knowing an answer at school, not knowing how to dance at a party, fighting with a sibling, or not being good at a sport.

The llama makes him act out and he tries hard to lose the llama by hiding from it, leaving it on a train or at the zoo, mailing it to a foreign country but that's not the way to make his worries go away.

Alex learns that it's okay to have worries and to feel upset - everyone does on occasion. He learns that he have to care for your feelings and that when you are stressed the best thing to do is to talk to someone. He realized as he talked about his feelings, his llama grew smaller and he felt happier and stronger.

The book has a page of tips to calm a llama which are very useful and can be adapted to a child of any age. Simple ideas that any child can learn: things like taking deep breaths, talking to someone that is your trusted person, doing things that you love: drawing, reading, listening to music or playing with your favourite toys, thinking about your happy place or you can write down your feelings and share them with your trusted person when you are ready.

"The Drama Llama" is one of the most creative, perfectly written picture book that I have read this year. It' ideal for primary grades since it includes rhyming, new vocabulary, captivating story line, and the social lesson that all students can relate to. It is going to be a repeated read and will be one of those books students bring to class to share. Love it!

Parent review: thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book. Honestly I’m blown away by how hitting this book is. A great children’s book explaining in little peoples terms about anxiety and how to cope with it in a way kids can understand and adults as well. The artwork was absolutely stunning looking like a mix of cartoon with beautiful watercolors. The story itself was funny and quite relatable. I will definitely be adding this one to my permanent shelf at home.

Kids review: (my daughter and I read this one together) The drawing were really pretty and colourful and happy. The characters were nice how they helped Alex, and the llama was a funny character. The story was helpful and really funny.

5 stars ⭐️ Such a cute/funny story with adorable illustrations. Thank you NetGalley for this ARC. My kids really enjoyed it.

This was the cutest book! This would be a great read aloud for a classroom or a bedtime story. The illustrations are so cute!

A cute children's book about Alex, who worries a lot. One day, a drama llama appears and the more Alex gets worried, the bigger the llama becomes!

This was such a good way to introduce kids to anxiety and stress. I loved the message here, and the illustrations were very cute!

I ADORE this book. If I could give it 10 stars I would. I have a kiddo that struggles with worry and anxiety, and he happens to LOVE llamas. I can not wait to show him this book. It teaches such a sweet and important message about mental health in a fun and playful way. Every home should have this book in their library. I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

A sweet picture book about dealing with anxiety as a child! This one reminded me a lot of Tom Percival's "Ruby Finds A Worry," but with a fun LLAMA instead of a little worry spot. I would definitely recommend this one to patrons who enjoyed "Ruby Finds A Worry" or any books about anxiety for children in general.

This is a cute take on how worry can manifest for children and what some healthy ways to handle it are. I especially liked the tips in the back. The illustrations were cute - and I laughed when the llama really became unruly!