Book - Child
"Written in a hip - hop rhythm and based on "The House That Jack Built," the new cumulative rhyme focuses attention on the drug trade and abuse of crack cocaine. No stone is left unturned as the text demonstrates the drug's ripple effect that begins with exploited South American coca farmers and ends up invading urban neighborhoods also infested with gangs, violence, despair and hopelessness. Dicks uses muted, somber colors and almost cubist figures and images to illustrate crack's lethal potential. The picture book format is well-suited to presentation of this subject matter to a wide audience. All of the publisher's proceeds from the book will go to drug education, prevention and rehabilitation programs that specifically help children." --Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --From Publishers Weekly
4 years - 8 years.
English
0811801233
Clark Taylor , Jan Thompson Dicks
1992 Chronicle Books
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