Monique Burris

Ghetto Rhymes: a Collection of Traditional Nursery Rhymes with a Ghetto Twist Monique Burris

In Ghetto Rhymes the authors have poked fun of the traditional nursery rhymes and added a ghetto twist. Do you remember Goldie Lox and the Three Bears? Well what about Dread Locs and the Bears? Later for the porridge said Dread Locs, Me and the bears are going to swing by the joint and pick us up a chickn' box. Remember Humpty Dumpty? In Ghetto Rhymes, Humpty while chillin' on the wall, is harassed and arrested by the cops causing Humpty's fall. Find out how Humpty gets his revenge. Then we have Mary, who had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow she took him to the slaughter house and ordered lamb chops to go. Little Miss Muffit sat on her Tuffit her husband of 17 years left her with 17 kids and now she had to Ruff it.

All of them are here. Read about how they deal with welfare, unemployment, foodstamps and getting by day to day in the hood. Ghetto Rhymes is 124 pages, packed with over 75 (ghetto) nursery rhymes, and 90 illustrated drawings. Also enjoy the glossary included in the back of the book of slang used in the "hood" This book is a good read, just silly and for anyone who loves to laugh.