I Have the Right to Be A Child
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Publisher Description
I am a child. But do I have rights? What about the right to know, express and talk about my rights?
The Convention on the Rights of the Child IS 25 years old
In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special set of rights just for them. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was written by the United Nations and signed by 193 countries around the world. Comprising of 54 articles, the Convention on the Rights of the Child is a legally binding international agreement, incorporating all the minimum basic human rights that all children are entitled to, and that all governments should respect. This book translates some of the articles of the Convention into accessible language accompanied by beautiful illustrations.
Asking the questions
What are rights? Why do we have rights? What do rights mean to different children in different parts of the world?
I have the right to be a child is intended to be a multi-layered resource for discussion, debate and contemplation on the complexities inherent in the term ‘rights’ and the big questions about what it means to have rights in the world we live in today.
*Downloadable teaching resources to accompany this book are available via the publisher's website and Amnesty International.*
Reviews:
"An important addition to every child's bookcase." The Guardian
"A book for every school library." School Librarian Journal
"An immensely valuable Key Stage Two resource." Teach Primary
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child is written in dense legalese, making it hard for the group it protects to understand it. Serres (And Picasso Painted Guernica) reframes the document's articles in the voice of a child: "I have the right to go to school and to refuse to go to work. I'll choose a job when I've learned everything I want to know!" Fronty (Animals of the Bible for Young Children) paints na f, folk art like figures in a palette of jewel colors, suggestive of a series of slightly surreal Persian miniatures. Read aloud, the cumulative effect of Serres's words is inspiring; children may sit up straighter as they hear that someone has thought about all the things they need: "I have the right to be free from any kind of violence, and no one has the right to take advantage of me because I am a child. No one." In the context of a classroom discussion, this is a powerful work, and a handsome one. An afterword notes that the U.S. is one of only three countries not party to the convention. Ages 4 7.
