Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! - Couverture souple

Atinuke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406320811 ISBN 13 : 9781406320817

Editeur : Walker Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa.

Anna Hibiscus is back home after visiting her grandma in Canada. But it seems that so much has changed while she was away! Double and Trouble have learned to run and Grandad seems to have grown older. One of the chickens has laid its eggs and eventually they hatch – all except one, which Anna looks after. Finally one morning that egg hatches too and a white ball of fluff appears. Anna names her chick Snow White, and the two are inseparable. But Snow White wreaks havoc wherever she goes, and Anna has a hard time keeping her out of trouble. Anna also has a surprise visitor – someone from Canada has come all that way to see her!

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Atinuke was born in Ibadan, in south-west Nigeria. "I remember it as a city of dusty red roads, of bungalows buried under flowers, of botanical gardens. When I was five my father got a "good job" in the capital city of Lagos. A city of polo clubs and swimming pools and slums. We went to live behind the high walls of a mansion in a quiet part of the city, and left our extended family behind. This is where my love affair with books and stories began, locked behind the great iron gates of the lonely house. Throughout my childhood I wanted firstly and desperately to be a Boy, then an Adventurer, and lastly, An Author. Two of these were impossible (I was told) and one was dangerous. Forget it. So I carried on reading instead. I read Enid Blyton books and it sounded fun. At 10 years old, after a campaign of cajoling and persuading, my parents agreed to send me to boarding school in England. And that was, effectively, the end of my childhood. As soon as I could, I gave up all subjects but storybooks and went off to study literature. I wrote 10,000 words one year to get over a lost love and got into Oxford instead. But the writing I had to do there was so dry that I left. I decided to go Adventuring instead. I lived and travelled in England and France, Morocco and Germany and Spain, sleeping like a nomad on beaches and mountainsides. I sang for my supper, painted portraits, weeded gardens, worked as an artist's model and lived in a round mud hut in the wild wet woods of Wales. One day, pregnant with my first son, I told a story to some bored children at a festival and that's when my proper job found me! I haven't stopped telling stories since. I got through the trials and tribulations of life by escaping into books and making up stories in my head. My journal stayed with me through all my adventures, crammed with poetry and reflections and questions. I told stories for a living (because I had been told it was impossible to be An Author - and I had believed them). Until one winter in Wales - too ill to get up and go out and tell stories; too ill to go home to my fatherland - I found myself in the circumstances in which I write best (alone and bored and empty) and I wrote about what I was missing... I wrote Anna Hibiscus."

Lauren Tobia worked as an intensive care nurse before graduating from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. Whilst studying, she was highly commended in the Macmillan Children’s Book Prize. She is currently a junior fellow at U.W.E. illustration department and a freelance illustrator. Her work is a combination of the hand drawn and digital and she now works as a freelance illustrator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Walker Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406320811
• ISBN 13: 9781406320817
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Tobia Lauren
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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