Researching for a book: What does a rejected load of contaminated scrap look like?

You write weird books. - Auburn

You think that's weird for a kids book or any book? Ha! Some of you may recall I've mentioned before, that before I did this full time at one point I worked in a bookstore. Border's books to be exact, you know..the main rival of Barnes an Noble before Borders went out of business. Anyhow...I worked over night as part of the inventory team. We stocked, an alphabetized the books and all that fun stuff. So anyhow..My section was the kids section. The largest section in the store next to general fiction.

One book for kids that still sticks out to this day...The House that Crack Built. No bull****, an actual book of that title in the kid's section of a major book retailer.

An excerpt from the book, I still remember to this day:

"This is the house that crack built. This is the man who built the house that crack built."

It had...crack vials, crack babies, a drive by, drug dealers of various types...large scale an small, coca leaves, and even street bags of crack and cocaine. I believe there was even a picture of someone smoking crack.

The whole book was like..35 pages? Illustrated, all the above is pictured and/or mentioned.

My point is...there's a lot stranger books out there for kids. These came out after my stint at the store.

Lets see..
I'm sure this one is a big hit at bed time..


Pay attention to the cover, I can't make this stuff up..


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Link to a list of 21 completely Depressing Children's books. http://http://www.brainjet.com/rando...-exist/#page=1

An for those thinking I'm making up that first book..


I'll take the OP's book any day...Far as what contaminated scrap/rejected...could make it a load of aluminum that was found to be "dirty" as we call it. Dirty alum is when you've left non-aluminum to the item. ex. A beach chair can be made of aluminum, but it'd be dirty at most yards if you don't remove the steel rivets or cloth/material.

Anyhow..just wanted to share the House that Crack Built, with you all.

Working in a bookstore was far from boring. lol.



Good luck with the book OP.

Sirscrapalot - Getting lost in a book is a wonderful feeling. More people should try it.