However, the voice could equally be that of an adult, because who can’t look back upon teachers or other early mentors who gave of themselves and offered their pupils so much? Indeed, some of the self-aware, self-assured expressions herein seem perhaps more realistic as uttered from one who’s already grown. This gentle ode to a teacher’s skill at inspiring, encouraging, and being a role model is spoken, presumably, from a child’s viewpoint. North American readers and listeners are likely to catch Anna’s enthusiasm just as quickly.Ī paean to teachers and their surrogates everywhere.
Only Anna and her Canadian mother have actual bathing suits the others happily plunge in in their street clothes. Tobia’s joyous illustrations portray this extended family realistically in digitally colored drawings.
Worried child readers (and adults) will quickly be relieved Anna’s enjoyment of the gentle surf is infectious, and she’s soon surrounded by cousins, parents, aunts and uncles, and even the now wide-awake grandparents. After being turned down by each group of family members (except for her napping grandparents), Anna goes to play with the waves on her own. They’re all too busy to play in the waves with Anna. There, everyone happily finds things to do-read, braid each other’s hair, bury a cousin in the sand, play soccer, chat with the fishermen, compare smartphones.
Like Anna Hibiscus’ Song (2011) and chapter books starring this irrepressible child, this celebrates Anna’s family and her home in “amazing Africa.” This beach trip starts on the front endpapers, where careful readers can pick out the boat that will carry her whole family through the title page and to a beach offshore. On a family trip to the beach, Anna Hibiscus convinces her extended family to join her, splashing and laughing in the waves.
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