Safe and Sound: A Parent's Guide to Child Protection

by Roderick Townley

Discusses child kidnapping, sexual abuse, and runaways, offers advice on how to help children learn to avoid possibly dangerous situations, and tells what to do if a child is missing

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 7, 1986

About the author

Roderick Townley is an American author of juvenile, young adult, and adult books, including books of poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and was for many years a poet and fiction writer, and for a time lived in New York City and wrote for TV Guide, The Village Voice and other publications. In 2001, he began the Sylvie Cycle, a metafictional series about the spunky, fictional Princess Sylvie who lives her life in a book.