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Hooray For Anna Hibiscus. By Atinuke (2008)

by Atinuke(Favorite Author)

4.63 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1406314951 (ISBN13: 9781406314953)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Walker & Company

series

Anna Hibiscus

review 1: A few different events happened for Anna Hibiscus in #2 of this series. She has the chance to sing in front of a president of a country. She learns the hard way why the women in the family braid their hair every week. Her family buys a generator to deal with the intermittent electricity. And she goes with her aunt and uncle to visit the island across the lagoon from her house where she finds dire poverty. How she reacted to it all was priceless. She is growing in the sense of her place in her family and in her country. She sees that not everyone lives like her own family. I have to that the names of her twin brothers, Double and Trouble, as well as other relatives are interesting to learn. They are not your standard first names, they are names like Joy, Comfort, Double and... more Trouble. And yes the twins can be double trouble at times.
review 2: This has one very dark scene in it -- Anna Hibiscus realizes that not everyone has the privileged life she does. The depiction of poverty in an African city is brutal. (Maxie put her hands over her ears when I read it to her, and this is the only Anna Hibiscus book she won't read on her own.) I appreciate that it's handled not-at-all didactically, and I say again I LOVE THESE BOOKS, but be forewarned. (That said, too, I think even a 6-year-old American kid should understand how lucky she is. That's why I kept reading aloud despite Maxie's hands being on her ears.) I also really liked the juxtaposition of the goofy bits -- a goat kicking a generator, Anna Hibiscus's little brothers Double and Trouble bellowing "Sing, Anna Biscus!" -- with the distressing chapter. Life's like that. less

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