![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, it might not just be drugs - it could be sugar, or caffeine, but the message remains the same - "it's important to know when to say 'no'". ![]() Overall, the message is rather unsubtle, the illustrations slightly darker and less filled with whimsical charm. The buds give him nightmares but he continues to take more, and embarrsses himself at school the next day. The Hungry Bookshelf COSGROVE, Stephen : Crickle Crack : A Serendipity Book SC - Crickle Crack by Stephen Cosgrove Illustrated by Robin James ISBN. before he knows it the day is over and he's missed school. The first tastes bitter, but it makes him happy (".dancing to songs that had never been sung."), so he takes another. Little Squeakers, a charming and playful young squirrel, hears tales about this unplesant tree and stumbles upon it one day - and it lures him into tasting its stunted white buds. The crickle-crack is a twisted and gnarled tree, which produces mutated little flowers that only bud and never blossom. It is aimed, I would say, at the 5-8 age group because, quite simply, it is a story about the evil influence of drugs. Crickle-crack is more text intensive than the Serendipity books I have already reviewed, and contains a rather more serious message. ![]()
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