Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!

by Atinuke, Lauren Tobia (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536226928
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	01/10/2023
Series:	Anna Hibiscus Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	40 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Atinuke was born in Nigeria and spent her childhood in both Africa and the United Kingdom. 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. Her other books include Baby, Sleepy Baby; Baby Goes to Market; B Is for Baby; and Catch That Chicken!, all illustrated by Angela Brooksbank. Atinuke lives in Wales.

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. She lives in the United Kingdom.

I was born in Bristol, England, and have lived there pretty much all my life. When I was small I spent some time living on a boat in Cornwall at the bottom of an estuary where seabirds waded outside my window and where I was able to run wild.
I have two fabulous creative and lovely daughters who are grown up now. My husband and I live with our crazy Jack Russell dogs in a little terraced house in Bristol, and when I am not there I am at my studio drawing and drinking tea. And not drawing and drinking more tea! We have a community garden (I think that is what you call them) where we grow vegetables and rather a lot of weeds.

I was a nurse for many years before I went to university.
I originally wanted to study fine art.
I had a magical time! I tried everything from bronze casting to video to enameling and printmaking. Eventually I ended up in an illustration course and have not looked back. I work using mostly pencil, ink, a bit of watercolor, and my computer to make pictures.

Three things you don’t know about me:

I am very dyslexic and happy to be so.
But don’t ask me to remember a name or a phone number!

I almost always wear mismatched socks. Life is too short to find a pair.

I love animals, although I am not super keen on spiders or donkeys!
(I had to look after some donkeys once and they kept running away.)