On about our 20th reading of Llama Llama Red Pajama, it
struck me that Mama Llama was doing dishes while talking on a slimline,
wall-mounted, spiral corded phone, and I wondered if my kid even knew
what that was. I asked, she shrugged her shoulders, which could have
meant "no" or could have meant "I'm not a trained monkey ... keep
reading!"
Later, I flipped back to see when it was published,
2005. Christ, even my in-laws had upgraded to a cordless by then.
That's when I started seeing dated technology in everything we read.
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