Harris Kauffman's Reviews > Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom

In this essential installment of the Llama Llama omnibus, red pajamas are given less literary and illustrative value. Rather, the emphasis is placed on the activities of a day on the playground. Onomatopoeia is used to incite energetic movements. Indeed, Llama Llama and his frequent companion, the anthropomorphized wildebeest Nelly Gnu, seem to dance across the page in a vivacious testament to the act of recreation. The work, in its lyricism, its vibrancy, and its decidedly anti-grandiloquence diction, is a spartan celebration of play.