Atinuke, illus. by Lauren Tobia. EDC/Kane Miller, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61067-040-1
With this effervescent tale, Atinuke introduces younger readers to the African heroine of her early chapter-book series. As Anna Hibiscus sits in a mango tree watching her family members’ various activities, she “feels so happy, she almost floats...
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Atinuke, illus. by Lauren Tobia. EDC/Kane Miller, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61067-367-9
Anna Hibiscus gains twin baby brothers in this companion to Anna Hibiscus’ Song. This time, though, happiness isn’t the primary emotion she is feeling; instead, she’s distraught at how disruptive the boys are to her familiar routines, and she...
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Atinuke, illus. by Angela Brooksbank. Candlewick, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0166-6
As they did in Baby Goes to Market, Atinuke and Brooksbank include readers in the book’s antics while leaving out the characters who surround Baby. Pictures tell the story alongside minimal text that introduces B words (baby, beads, basket). After...
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Atinuke, illus. by Angela Brooksbank. Candlewick, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1268-6
Baby Goes to Market team Atinuke and Brooksbank tell the story of Lami, a West African girl with beaded braids, bright green sandals, and a talent for catching chickens. Her sister Sadia may be a better speller, her brother Bilal may be braver with...
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Atinuke, illus. by Angela Brooksbank. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3555-5
Atinuke and Brooksbank (Baby Goes to Market) reteam for an L-focused story about two adults and four children setting off to sell lemons, leaving two elders behind. In an opening scene (“L is for Leaving,/ L is for Linger”), the family members...
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Atinuke, illus. by Birgitta Sif. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1275-4
Hugo, the dapper, attentive pigeon who stars in this story by Atinuke (Too Small Tola) is warden of a park in a city that feels like Paris. He’s everywhere—greeting visitors, charming infants and dogs, tidying up—and he knows everyone, except for a...
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Atinuke, illus. by Emily Hughes. Candlewick, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2518-1
Atinuke (L Is for Love) draws from her experiences having moved from a “mansion” in Lagos to Wales, where she lived with her son in a “roundhouse built of straw and clay in the woods,” to showcase a life lived “simply on the land” in four gentle...
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Atinuke, illus. by Onyinye Iwu. Candlewick, $15.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1127-6
In this winning trio of stories, Atinuke (Catch That Chicken!) introduces readers to counting whiz Tola, who lives with her family in “a run-down block of apartments in the megacity of Lagos, in the country of Nigeria.” Tola shares a small apartment
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Atinuke, illus. by Lauren Hinds. Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3876-1
Keeping track of Granny’s many, many goats is a group of local children’s favorite pastime—though the incorrigible animals make it no easy feat. In rollicking, rhythmic prose, Atinuke (L Is for Love) gleefully tots up the goats by groups of 10,...
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