Under Anna’s Umbrella written by Amanda Driscoll and illustrated by Luisa Uribe (and due mid/late April 2025) is actually a nice story about grief. It is set up to allow you to adapt it to your own personal needs. We see how Anna is unable to face the death of someone in her family (I am assuming a father as there isn’t one during the course of the book, but there is a photograph of a man at the end of the book) but as said, it could be anyone (a grandparent who lived with them, or if you wish to be modern, another mother figure). 
And while I enjoyed the overall situation, there were a few bumps in the flow that made things not work for me as strongly as I would have liked. I was not completely sure if Anna’s umbrella was real or a metaphor, but you do see the umbrella and it shows the issues it causes such as you can’t see around it when you sit behind her in the movie theater, she disrupts class with it and her brother thinks it looks ridiculous. Therefore, I am assuming the umbrella is not a metaphor, but she is literally hiding under it. The story starts with rain and ends with rain, so that would make it seem like things can be taken literally, while showing the emotions she is going through.
The illustrations are nice and help keep things moving steadily along, keeping it somber, but also with hope as well. They are neither bright nor muted, bold or soft, or even realistic or dreamy, but all at the same time. The art has a classical feeling, but the presentation is more modern. Everything about it makes the book a strong rating of three. It is Goldilocks: just right. It isn’t WOW but it isn’t dull either. I would recommend it but it is not for everyone.