Summary: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa with her family and friends. It is a hot day. She wants to play in the waves. Everyone seems too busy to play in the waves with her, so she decides to play with the waves themselves. Her joy is contagious and soon everyone who was too busy before decides to join Anna Hibiscus in the water.
Review: This is a beautiful picture book of a sweet girl who wants to enjoy her natural surroundings. The pictures are fun and engaging and the characters' names are also fun. It is a joyful book.
Diversity: This book features an African girl and her extended family and friends. Lots of beautiful pictures of people in various shades of brown. Anna Hibiscus's mother is white and her father is black so this shows a multiracial family and a close-knit, multi-generational, happy family at that. The only issue is that Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, not a particular city or country in Africa, but Africa the continent which generalizes all Africans.
Diversity: This book features an African girl and her extended family and friends. Lots of beautiful pictures of people in various shades of brown. Anna Hibiscus's mother is white and her father is black so this shows a multiracial family and a close-knit, multi-generational, happy family at that. The only issue is that Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, not a particular city or country in Africa, but Africa the continent which generalizes all Africans.
Suggestions for Teachers: This picture book would be a great addition for a unit study on families and what families look like. It would be a great read-aloud and a wonderful addition to a classroom library.
Reading Level:
- Quantitative: Lexile 500L, ATOS Book Level 4.0, Flesh-Kincaid 3.0,4.0 RMM
- Qualitative: This text is slightly complex as it is organized in a traditional manner with a recognizable pattern. Anna asks various members of her family to join her and they all are too busy until they realize how much fun she is having. The language is simple and the only hiccup for students may be the characters' unusual names as they are ideas and adjectives. The theme of doing something for yourself despite what others think is accessible. Students need no prior schema to access this book. The pictures do a wonderful job of showing the beauty of family and the joy of the ocean.
Content Areas: Literacy, Geography
Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Awards: N/A
Series Information: part of the Anna Hibiscus series
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