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...Querida Mama...
...tribal groups into a nightmarish civil war of the kind that has left tens of thousands dead in Somalia and Liberia. Shortages of food and gasoline are severe; road and rail links between major cities have been virtually swallowed by the encroaching jungle. Even in the capital's Mama Yemo hospital -- named for Mobutu's deceased mother -- children suffer without medication, and hundreds of victims of the AIDS epidemic die untreated. In the trackless bush, where millions of peasants and tribesmen still live, the scourges of leprosy, trypanosomiasis and malaria are again pandemic...
MIRETTE ON THE HIGH WIRE by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam; $14.95). In Mama's boardinghouse, little Mirette is surrounded by famous acrobats. None is more attractive than M. Bellini, a tightrope walker who has suddenly lost his courage. Mirette can restore it, but only if she accompanies him on his walk over the rooftops of Paris. Wistful watercolors evoke turn-of-the-century France, and the narrative is as taut as the high wire itself...
Thus traditional children's tales are being set to a contemporary beat. "I been rapping with kids for a long, long time/ Even your parents know my rhymes," chirps a character called Mama Goose on MCA's Nursery Rhymes Rap. And although many new songs continue to deal with subjects like eating vegetables or coping with siblings, some grapple with difficult family issues. "You see, Timmy's dad was married/ To his mom a while ago/ But now they are divorced/ Sometimes that's the way things go," sings Craig Taubman, who also records for Disney...
Attentive parents can find other reminders of the glory days of their own youth. A&M Records' Tim Noah belts out a Springsteen-style anthem: "I was raised on rock 'n' roll/ Bo Diddley, Fats Domino/ Mama rocked me by the radio/ Raised on rock 'n' roll." Rory, who records for Sony, does a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Diana Ross in a cut from her album I'm Just a Kid. This Saturday, Radio AAHS, a 24-hour children's station in Minneapolis, will sponsor a concert featuring well-known kids' performers like Joanie Bartels and Bob McGrath. They...