To say "I don't like this" would sound stilted and artificial - and we're grown-ups! Children have even bigger emotions and less experience dealing with them. We say "I hate getting up at the crack of dawn" and "I hate being stuck in traffic" and "I hate when the milk spoils two days after it's bought". Perfectly accurate - when have you ever heard a cranky child say they "don't like" something? No, they always go for the strongest word they know - hate. You can see him getting more and more upset as the day goes on, including the famous "Llama Llama HATES that book" line. The author is very good at presenting children's emotions.
Except this time he doesn't have a tantrum (he's growing up, clearly), he just starts to cry. The Llama, Llama books follow a very set format - something happens, the llama gets more and more frustrated, the llama throws a tantrum, and the grown-ups help fix things.
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