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Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior
3.0

Age: Preschool-1st grade
Country: Jamaica
Family: Youngest child in big family
Emotions: Frustration, determination

Full spread canvas paintings depict a little girl trying to achieve what all her older brothers and sisters can accomplish: carrying containers of water on their heads from the river to home. Relating to all children's frustrations when they see older people doing things that they cannot, Anna continues to persevere. Lagging far behind her family carrying water is Anna. She soon becomes all alone where her only company is a herd of cows and fragment sentences. With no real reason to be afraid of the cows, she takes off running but not before she puts the cup of water on her head without thinking and achieves what she has been yearning for by chance.