Variations on a stylized green llama illustrate 17 pears…er…pairs of homophones in a board book that is a visual delight. A “pair” of llamas and a llama shaped like a “pear.” A llama on a bottom “stair” and a comically round- eyed llama caught in a “stare.” A glistening-winged llama “fairy” and a llama on a ferry. Each page spread features two sound-alike words and two droll illustrations sure to bring smiles, whether or not children are old enough to read the words. For those who are, the sly sophistication will overcome resistance to the book format. (Ages 3–9)

Llamaphones is a bright, colorful rhyming board book in the Grammar Zoo Book series.

Llamaphones, author/illustrator Janik Coat's much-anticipated follow-up to Hippopposites and Rhymoceros, features witty words that sound the same but are spelled differently--and have different meanings. Like the other books in the series, this one features surprising novelties, including a touch-and-feel element, making homophones (words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings--such as "stair" and "stare") an easy and fun concept to learn.

The Grammar Zoo Book series:
Hippopposites
Rhymoceros
Llamaphones
Comparrotives