cover image Don't Talk to Strangers [With CD]

Don't Talk to Strangers [With CD]

Kevi. Scholastic, $13.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-439-31385-8

Rappers LL Cool J and Doug E. Fresh were the first to offer their wisdom. Now, Scholastic's HipKidHop series continues with platinum-selling recording artist Shaggy as he waxes poetic about his mother in Hope, illus. by Joseph Buckingham Jr. ""I remember-wasn't so long ago.../ We had a one-room shack/ and the living was low,"" Shaggy begins, yet his mother cheered him on: ""In order to achieve what you need,/ you can never give up, you can never give up."" From songwriter Kevi, who contributed two songs to the multiplatinum Rugrats soundtrack, Don't Talk to Strangers, illus. by JibJab Media, puts a familiar warning in verse. A CD single accompanies each book.