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This series continues to serve as a window to Nigerian culture while it follows the conventions of both traditional storytelling and modern children’s fiction.
Atinuke’s first foray into nonfiction admirably presents an accessible and engaging narrative with its nuanced treatment of a continent too often depicted in relation to its extremes.
Young listeners will delight in getting to know Baby and his Mama as they shop throughout the market. Consider for first purchase in larger collections.
Believably portraying the emotional highs and lows of childhood, this gentle story about adjusting to the "new normal" of a growing family is a first purchase for libraries everywhere.—Anna Haase Krueger, Ramsey County Library, MN
The latest Anna Hibiscus picture book (Splash, Anna Hibiscus!, rev. 11/13) set “in Africa. Amazing Africa” relates Anna’s adjustment to the arrival of twin baby brothers, referred to as “Double Trouble.” Title-page art shows Anna wearing an ambivalent look on her face as she snuggles with her pregnant mother. The story then follows her struggles with the family’s necessarily diverted attentions immediately after the births. Mama is sleeping. Uncle Bizi Sunday is making food for Mama. Grandmother is resting after “helping [the] brothers to be born.” The aunties are rocking the babies. The other uncles are busy making things for the babies. No one can attend to Anna Hibiscus in the ways they usually do