Banana Beer

by Carol Carrick

Charlie the orangutan's life is adversely affected by his father's addiction. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807505684
• ISBN13: 9780807505687
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Realistic despite the talking animals

It must have been difficult to write a book on alcoholism for the picture-book age. So often, books of this type fail for one of two reasons: either they are too pat, with an unrealistically happy ending, or they are way too wordy. In a family of monkeys,Carrick somehow manages to convey the brutal sorrow of an alcoholic home at a level that could be used with 4 year olds. Warning! Not a fun book and not a book to just leave the child to discover him or her self, but a very useful tool for anyone trying to help a child whose family has this problem.