Africa is a huge continent implying that all African village life is like Grandfather’s village is something of an oversimplification. Possibly it is Nigeria, where Atinuke grew up. She lives in the United Kingdom.This sixth installment of the Anna Hibiscus series finds Anna leaving the big white house in the city where she lives with her extended family to experience life in Grandfather’s rural village.Īs with the other stories, the country is not identified. Lauren Tobia is the author-illustrator of Oscar’s Tower of Flowers and the illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the Anna Hibiscus series by Atinuke, Are You Sure Mother Bear?, by Amy Hest, Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin, Baby’s Got the Blues by Carol Diggory Shields, and The Blanket Where Violet Sits by Allan Wolf. Her other books include Baby, Sleepy Baby Baby Goes to Market B Is for Baby and Catch That Chicken!, all illustrated by Angela Brooksbank.

She is the author of the award-winning Anna Hibiscus series, illustrated by Lauren Tobia, as well as Hugo, illustrated by Birgitta Sif, and Too Small Tola, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu. It’s the dry, dusty winter season in Nigeria, and Anna Hibiscus is getting ready to visit her Canadian grandmother in the third adventure of Atinuke’s lively chapter-book series.Ītinuke was born in Nigeria and spent her childhood in both Africa and the United Kingdom. Can she do anything to help? “Once again, Anna demonstrates a growing social consciousness,” said Kirkus Reviews of this third adventure in a warm series that is sure to captivate. To conserve water, the family uses leftover wash water for their garden, but Anna learns that some children outside their gate have no water at all.

Atinuke’s inviting text and Lauren Tobia’s expressive drawings capture Anna’s life with her parents and grandparents, baby brothers and cousins, aunties and uncles during the Harmattan season, when dust from the Sahara Desert blows everywhere. Anna Hibiscus can’t wait to visit her grandmother in faraway Canada, where she will see snow for the first time! But before she goes, there’s much to do-including searching in a department store for clothes to keep her warm in cold weather and saying goodbye to the big family she loves.

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