Anna Dewdney was a teacher, a mother, and an enthusiastic proponent of reading aloud to children. She continually honed her skills as an artist and writer and published her first Llama Llama book in 2005. Since then, the series has sold over 10 million copies around the world and is slated to become an animated television series. Until her death in 2016, she lived in Vermont with her husband, two daughters, two wirehaired pointing griffons, and one bulldog.