the me nobody knows
children's voices from the ghetto
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About the Book
"One of the most remarkable little books of the new publishing year...variously appealing, poignant and revealing."
-Saturday Review
"A book for teachers, children, and for all who do not know that the children of the ghetto are 'something special.'"
-The New York Times Book Review
"Some write of love, sleep, death, and darkness-things that puzzle all growing children. Most, however, write about the agonies of living in a world apart from the mainstream of American life-about dirt in the streets and violence in the home, about fear, pain, dismay, and indignation-and out of the mouths of babes, the truth hurts even more."
-Book World
"It's time more of us listened to these voices."
-Chicago News
About the Author
Stephen M. Joseph wrote the play, The Only Tree, the novel, The Shark Bites Back, as well as Children in Fea, and Mommy! Daddy! I?m Afraid! His anthology, The Me Nobody Knows, adapted for theater, won the Obie Award for best Off-Broadway musical. He teaches at Touro College and lives in New York City.