Getting into Drugs
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Cover Story
This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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Illustrated by Steve Myers
I've never been a fan of this series with its wooden cartoon sequences, obviously posed photographs and contrived case studies and this volume does not make me change my mind even though we need to provide our youngsters with all the information that we can on this most emotive of subjects. The only part I can see any of my students using is the spread that has the basic facts on the most common drugs. The authors obviously know their subject and there is a lot of sound advice but it is so difficult to get at amongst all the illustrations that I fear only the most determined of readers will stick with it.
