Atinuke
Author
Series
Too Small Tola volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A baby and her brother take a basket full of bananas to visit their baba, and the baby sees many different animals along the way, including butterflies, birds, and baboons.
"B is for Baby. B is for Brother. B is for going to see Baba! One morning after breakfast, Baby’s big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba’s bungalow in the next village. He’ll have to go along the bumpy road, past the...
Author
Series
Too Small Tola volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji; her big brother, Dapo; and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right to wriggle under the bed and rescue Grandmommy's prized possession when it goes missing. Her savvy and math skills save the day when Grandmommy gets sick, and when the family can't afford new clothes, industrious Tola finds a way--with a little help from...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
''The team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity. Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, but when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or braver than Lami. That is, until the day when Lami chases a little too fast, up the baobab tree, and reaches a little...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus books volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Anna leaves her family home in Africa to visit her Canadian grandmother, she discovers how resilient she can be in this fourth collection of stories from Atinuke’s beloved series. Anna Hibiscus has never been away from her big white house in Nigeria, where baby brothers, many cousins, parents, aunties, uncles, and grandparents are always nearby. But now she’s flying overseas on her own to visit Granny Canada and see snow for the first time!...
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus books volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Back in Africa after a month’s visit with Granny Canada, Anna Hibiscus finds that some things are different—but her home is just as full of love—in this fifth warm and funny chapter-book adventure. When Anna Hibiscus returns to her big house in Nigeria after visiting her Canadian grandmother, it seems like so much has changed. Her baby brothers, Double and Trouble, have learned to run, while Grandfather looks older and smaller. Anna had been...
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It’s the dry, dusty winter season in Nigeria, and Anna Hibiscus is getting ready to visit her Canadian grandmother in the third adventure of Atinuke’s lively chapter-book series. Anna Hibiscus can’t wait to visit her grandmother in faraway Canada, where she will see snow for the first time! But before she goes, there’s much to do—including searching in a department store for clothes to keep her warm in cold weather and saying goodbye to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's bedtime for a drowsy little one, and the whole family takes turns to cuddle and sing this sleepy baby to bed. One by one the baby's sister, grandmother, father, and mother call on the winds, the clouds, the stars, and the moon to sail and rock and delight their little one until dreams take over"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It’s a strange, scary time for Too Small Tola when a new virus separates her family, but Atinuke’s small-but-mighty heroine proves once again how wise, kind, and resourceful she can be. In ordinary times, Tola lives in an apartment in Lagos, Nigeria, with her clever sister, Moji; her sporty brother, Dapo; and bossy Grandmommy. Tola is so happy! But news of a new virus—and a lockdown, too—sends Moji away in one direction and Dapo in another....
11) Hugo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hugo the pigeon, the park warden of a small Parisian park, tries to coax a mysterious Somebody, the only one who never opens the windows for his visits, to come out to enjoy the park and make new friends.
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Join Anna Hibiscus and her big, bustling family in the second of Atinuke’s engaging illustrated chapter-book series set in modern Nigeria. Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa. She’s surrounded by so many family members she can’t count them, in a wonderful old house with a garden in a compound in a big city. Follow Anna as she worries about singing a solo for a visiting president, runs away to escape hair-braiding day (and gets in...