Anna Hibiscus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her mother and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the more her happiness grows! There’s only one thing to do…Sing!

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas:A new production by Sheffield Theatres, staged on the iconic Crucible stage and directed by Paul Foster( Talent, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun). This classic feel-good musical for all the family features the songs Blue Skies, Sistersand the festive favourite White Christmas. Admittedly, I would have liked Atinuke to give her books a country and not just a vague “Africa” for where they take place. It’s great for kids to know what life is like overseas, but there’s always the danger that they’ll just assume that all of Africa is one and the same. That said, it’s hard to find much fault with such a lovely series. From the pictures to the stories to the writing to the tone, everything about these books makes you feel happy and content. Here’s hoping there are more Anna Hibiscus books somewhere in the works. A finer crop of overseas fare I have yet to find for the early chapter book set. Memorable and enchanting.Sheffield Theatres’ Summer Schooltakes place in August and offers expertise from theatre professionals for participants to try their hand at a number of creative skills. In the Crucible, a new production marking the 80 thanniversary of Bertolt Brecht’spopular play The Good Person of Szechwan,is commissioned by ETTand co-produced by Sheffield Theatres, ETTand Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. This new version by writer Nina Segalis directed by Sheffield TheatresAssociateArtisticDirector Anthony Lau( Anna Karenina). Saturday 11 March – Saturday 1 April 2023. Anna Hibiscus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her mother and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the more her happiness grows! There's only one thing to do...Sing!

Althea Burey will play the roles of Narrator, Angel, Mama. Althea has multiple children’s productions stage credits to her name including The Smeds and the Smoos, The Gruffalo’s Child and Paw Patrol Live. If you like this series, you may also like Younguncle Comes to Town and Younguncle in the Himalayas. The fourth book in the awesome Anna Hibiscus series about a young girl growing up in a city in Nigeria.

Curriculum

In the first story Anna, her father, her mother, and Anna's two baby brothers go on a vacation away from the family, but discover that it's very difficult to take care of babies and cleaning all by yourself. The next day, all the aunties come to help. But that's not quite enough--and so all the big cousins come to help, and so on, and so forth, until the whole family is together again, and everyone is happy.