I would like to pay tribute to Anna Dewdney the author and illustrator of the Llama Lama Books. She died at the age of 50 on September 3, 2016 after a 15 month battle with cancer. She began her career in children's books when she illustrated "The Peppermint Race " by Dian Curtis Regan (Henry Holt,) 1994 and she illustrated a number of other children's chapter books in 1990s. Then in 2005 the Viking publishing Co published the first book that she wrote and illustrated, "Llam