Go Well, Anna Hibiscus!

The spirited Anna Hibiscus leaves the city to visit her grandparents’ remote village in this sixth adventure in the well-loved series set in contemporary West Africa.

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, Amazing Africa, in a country called Nigeria, in a city called Lagos. Anna is going with her family and grandfather on a trip to the village where her grandparents used to live, to stay in a house that has long been in their family. The city travelers ride on a packed, sweaty bus through the rainforest, through dusty scrubland, and through fields of bananas and oranges and sugarcane. When the bus lets them off, the village is still a long walk away through the bush. Anna has never been to the bush before--there is no road, no running water, and no electricity! There is plenty to learn, and friends to make too, as Anna’s escapades continue in this charming series from Atinuke and Lauren Tobia.

Atinuke was born in Nigeria and spent her childhood in both Africa and the UK. She works as a traditional oral storyteller in schools and theaters all over the world. Atinuke is the author of many children’s books, including the Anna Hibiscus series, illustrated by Lauren Tobia; the Too Small Tola series, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu; the nonfiction book Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country, illustrated by Mouni Feddag; as well as many picture books. Atinuke lives on a mountain overlooking the sea in West Wales.

Lauren Tobia is the illustrator of several books for children, including the Anna Hibiscus series by Atinuke, Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin, and Are You Sure, Mother Bear? by Amy Hest. Lauren Tobia is the author-illustrator of Oscar’s Tower of Flowers. She lives in Bristol, England.