Curtis the Hip-Hop Cat
Gini Wade
Published by Macmillan
0-333-42804-8, £2.50
This is the story of Curtis the street-dancing cat, 'who hip-hops his way to the top' Written in 'street verse' or 'rap' jargon, it's great fun, even more so when read or chanted aloud. 'Now this is the story of Hip-Hop cat/His name is Curtis and, boy is he fat./You'd think his hobby was putting on weight-/All that mattered to that cat was the food on his plate.' 'Rap' developed out of New York street culture, but has already become popular in Britain, and many children will have been exposed to it already, possibly through the excellent Thames Television Middle English programme about 'rap' poet, Benjamin Zephaniah.
Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Bill Boyle (BB)
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