Show UM The Salt Lake Tribune FAMILY A9 1992 11 Tuesday August New children's book illustrates the brutal world of crack some are racially ambiguous The drug-usinenvironment is entirely urban and poor Does this promote racial and social stereotypes? What does this say to children? And just whom is this book written for? Controversy is nothing new for adult books — it helps them sell — but in the world of children's books its risky business Condemnation from teachers librarians and child-car- e experts easily could relegate a book to the back shelves of warehouses PrI)lishers at Chronicle Books are keeping that in mind — the first press run is a conservative 10000 copies — but spokeswoman Jill Brubaker says the advance word from teachers and booksellers is overwhelmingly positive -We've shipped the entire first run already and we're into back orders" Brubaker says "There's really nothing out there like this and what we're hearing unfortunately is that there's a need" Brubaker says urban teachers are saying House is a book for preschoolers suburban areas say it's fit Tucker By Neely KNIGHT-R1DDE- NEWS SERVICE plistic repetitive structure and 14 paintings the book shows young children a painful world in which children die and mothers do not know how full-pag- e to love Most of the characters are black some are white for students and middle-scho- r Jacqueline Morrison the Detroit Urban League's director of programs favors the elementary school approach "This book can be used as a therapeutic tool" she says "The issue of living in or near crack houses is emotional and scary to children They need to talk but they have a hard time doing it This can help them open up" Part of what makes the book unique is it is free of preaching and moral judgments Nobody says "Just say no" Instead everything is introduced with "This is" For example next to a picture of a woman holding a crack pipe her head turned upside down the story says "This is the girl who's killing her brainsmoking the crack that numbs the painbought from the boy feeling the heatchased by the cop working his beat" and so on The watercolor paintings by Jan Thompson Dicks depict neighborhoods Crack smokers appear with their heads on upside down levitating a foot off the ground g One morning two years ago alone in his San Francisco apartment Clark Taylor wrote these words on a yellow legal notepad: This is the house that crack built His pen moved down a line and he kept writing adapting the nursery rhyme "This Is the House That Jack Built" into the brutal world of drug dealers and crack-head- s Thirty minutes later he was looking down at a complete poem and the essential work was done for a remarkable new children's picture book The House That Crack Built ($595 Chronicle Books 33 pages) is a simple disturbing look at the world of cocaine from its production in South America to its use on urban street corners With its sim- mammmr matter-of-factl- high-schoole- 0- 14 t - 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