The Rap Frogs YO!
Full-Color Children’s Book Offers Alternatives
to Violence and Crime Using Rap, Cartoons
LOS ANGELES – Say hello to Act, Mac and Tac, a trio of
hippity, hoppity rapping frogs in Anthony Taylor’s new
children’s book The Rap Frogs YO! It’s Time to RHYME Against
CRIME! (published by AuthorHouse).
Act, Mac and Tac aren’t just a group of
amphibians who happen to like hip-hop – their raps relay
an important message to children, warning them against
the dangers of crime and drug use. Ideal for children
ages 5 through 9, The Rap Frogs YO! introduces these hip,
memorable characters sure to delight children with their
positive, entertaining rhymes:
Thugs with drugs
are always hanging around
And you know it’s true,
they’re even in your town
They’re on the corner
by your school
Trying to play you and your friends
for a fool
They’re on the street
in their SUVs
Thinking they can do
just what they please
That’s when the Rap Frogs start rappin’ away
You see, thugs and drugs
is a game we don’t play
“This is a way of bringing young children
to the realization that violence and crime are negative,”
Taylor says. “These characters are superheroes, but they
rap instead of physically attacking or overcoming their
enemies. They use their voices in the community to stop
crime.” Taylor is also adamant about reaching children
at an early age: “People wait until kids are 18 and 19
and try to stop them from doing drugs and crimes and by
then it is too late. I believe in educating kids at a
young age because we have a better chance of reaching
them.”
Anthony Taylor has been a graphic designer
for the past 25 years and first developed The Rap Frogs
YO! as a comic book in 1996. His Los Angeles-based graphic
design company, A.T. Graphics, sponsors a nonprofit program
called the Youth Community Cartoon Network. The Rap Frogs
have been featured in the program’s workshops around the
Southern California area, and Taylor has performed with
the Rap Frogs in nearly every library in the Los Angeles
Public Library system. The Rap Frogs have been featured
in numerous magazines and newspapers, including What Up
L.A., the Los Angeles Southwest Explorer, the L.A. Sentinel,
the L.A. Watts Times and the cover of the Los Angeles
Southwest Wave. For more information on the Rap Frogs
or Taylor’s nonprofit work, visit www.rapfrogsyo.com.
AuthorHouse is the premier book publisher
for emerging, self-published authors. For more information,
please visit www.authorhouse.com.
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