Human Rights in Children's Literature

Jonathan Todres is a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. His research focuses on children's rights and child well-being. Professor Todres has published more than fifty articles on children's rights, child trafficking and related forms of exploitation, legal and cultural constructs of childhood, and human rights in children's literature. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Sarah Higinbotham is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her scholarship centers on the intersections of literature and law. She has written about the violence of the law in early modern England, critical prison theory, and human rights in children's literature. She teaches at a men's prison outside Atlanta and works actively with an Atlanta nonprofit that benefits children who have an incarcerated parent.

Foreword by Carol Bellamy, Former Executive Director of UNICEF ; Preface by Jonathan Todres ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Making Children's Rights Widely Known ; Chapter 2: Participation Rights and the Voice of the Child ; Chapter 3: Confronting Discrimination, Pursuing Equality ; Chapter 4: Identity Rights and Family Rights ; Chapter 5: Civil and Political Rights of Children: Accountability with Dignity ; Chapter 6: Securing Child Well-being: The Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of the Child ; Chapter 7: Adults in the World of Children's Literature ; Chapter 8: Reading, Rights, and the Best Interests of the Child ; Appendix 1: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ; Appendix 2: Discrimination against Children ; Appendix 3: Cinderella around the World ; Appendix 4: Empirical Study: How Children Interpret Human Rights in Stories ; Children's Literature Bibliography ; Bibliography ; For more information ; Index