Small Places, Close to Home: A Child's Declaration of Rights: Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The rights of childrenand of all living thingsbegin in small places, close to home.

This is a poetic and moving adaptation of U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in honor of its seventy-fifth anniversary.

In backyards and city parks, in school and at homewherever and however we move through this world, we have certain inalienable rightsand its up to each one of us to ensure those rights for others, too.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted by Eleanor Roosevelt and signed on December 10, 1948, marked the first time that countries agreed on a comprehensive statement of inalienable human rights. This gorgeous adaptation for children reminds us that universal rights begin in small places, close to home.

We all deserve to live free,

to feel safe,

to belong,

to learn,

to dream.

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"Starting with a loving image of a biracial family, this intimate book connects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the life of the individual child. The author and illustrator have worked together to make young readers aware of the declaration and to ensure that they understand their important role--as inhabitants of their own "small places, close to home," in Roosevelt's words--as members of local communities, countries, and the world vital to the realization of the Declaration's purpose. Quietly powerful." -- Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous books for children, including A Packet of Seeds; Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, a Jane Addams Award Honor Book; A Band of Angels, an ALA Notable Book; Fannie in the Kitchen, a Publishers Weekly Best Book; and Bluebird Summer, a Golden Kite Honor Award recipient from the Society of Children''s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives with her husband and two children in Walla Walla, Washington.