Taylor. The House that Crack Built

The House that Crack Built is a children's book by J. Clark Taylor, with art by Jan Thompson Dicks, published in 1992. It is available at the Internet Archive.

Here is a YouTube read-along:

This one is about as somber as they get. The story works backward from the cartel: the house that crack built belongs to a drug lord. We then meet the Man, then the Soldiers who guard the Man, then Farmers, then Plants (that people can't eat), then the Drug known as cocaine; next, we move to the Street of a town in pain (it rhymes!), then the Gang, fleet and elite, and the Cop working his beat... it's heavy stuff:

As you can see, the new line is in larger type, with the cumulative chain in smaller type.

Next comes a Boy, and his Crack, and a Girl, then a Baby with nothing to eat, and the Tears we cry in our sleep. Ohhhhh.... it is very sad, and very powerful. And it was published over 30 years ago, but is just as relevant now as ever. What an indictment of our society!

In the back, there's an afterword about fighting back, along with further information and resources for help.