Human Rights in Children's Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of Law - Hardcover

Todres, Jonathan; Higinbotham, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190213345 ISBN 13: 9780190213343

Publisher: OUP USA, 2016

Synopsis

How can children grow to realize their inherent human rights and respect the rights of others? This book explores this question through children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190213345
• ISBN 13: 9780190213343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320