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Too Small Tola Makes It Count
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.
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Too Small Tola Gets Tough
This gives readers and their families a big message of hope, strength, and triumph in this series addition about COVID-19.
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Too Small Tola and the Three Fine Girls
A good choice for fans of the author’s previous “Tola” titles; readers will not be disappointed with this pleasant new installment.
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Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country
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.
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Baby, Sleepy Baby
With a shimmering radiance and gentle tone, this title will be welcome in every children’s collection.
B Is for Baby
This tale offers eye-catching colors and a clever and fun way to introduce the "B" sound while telling a story.
Baby Goes to Market
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.
Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus!
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
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