With the help of Lauren Tobia’s appealing pen-and-ink illustrations, Atinuke presents the portrait of Anna and her extended family as devoted and determined middle-class, multicultural, and modern good-natured and generous strong and sensitive. The chapters provide both mirrors and windows into a childhood that is simultaneously familiar and foreign: in one, she must find clothes warm enough for her first snowy winter in another, she suffers false accusation that she ate a whole jar of sweets when in actuality she was trying to stop her infant twin brothers from doing so and in still another chapter, she grapples with the notion that Granny Canada treats a dog as a friend and family member (“Dogs live outside and eat rubbish”).

Amazing Africa,” offering a separate episode in Anna’s life, and highlighting the importance of family support. As in the first two books of the series, each chapter can work as a single read-aloud, beginning with the memorable lines, “Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. In Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!, Anna prepares for her first visit to her maternal grandmother in Canada, while in Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!, Anna finally travels to Canada for the Christmas holiday season. Master storyteller Atinuke is back with two new early chapter books in the Horn Book Award-honored series about the delightful African girl who has captured the spirit, adventure, innocence, and questions of childhood. Written by Atinuke, Illustrated by Lauren Tobia

Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus Book 4) Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus Book 3)

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