Bestselling children's book author and illustrator Anna Dewdney, who gained fame with her series of Llama Llama stories, has died at age 50.
Dewdney, who had a 15-month battle with brain cancer, died Saturday at her home in Chester, Vt., publisher Penguin Young Readers said.
"As we grieve, we also celebrate Anna's life, in dedicating ourselves to carrying forward her mission of putting books into as many little hands as possible," said Jen Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers, said in a statement.
Dewdney began to gain success in the 1990s as the illustrator of The Peppermint Race, by Dian Curtis Regan, and other children's books.
Llama Llama Red Pyjama was one of Dewdney's most popular and successful books.
She gained her greatest success with the series that began with the 2005 launch of Llama Llama Red Pajama. That story of Baby Llama's difficulties getting to sleep at bedtimes was a hit with critics and readers alike.
It began a series of stories that grew to more than 10 titles with more than 10 million copies combined.
Publishers Weekly reported that Netflix is developing an animated Llama Llama series due out next year.
Dewdney also was a well-known advocate for children's literacy. She published a 2013 opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal in which she wrote that "empathy is as important as literacy" when introducing children to reading.
By reading with a child, "we are teaching that child to be human," and the act enables the child "to see the world through someone else's eyes," she wrote.
Bestselling children's author of Llama Llama Red Pyjama, Anna Dewdney, dead at 50
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