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Five books  \nare summarized for younger audiences, and four are reviewed for older  \nreaders. The author also describes a recent informational book on fifteen  \nchildren's rights appropriate for all elementary classrooms.  \nThis article joins the ongoing, but often muted conversation about teaching human rights that has taken place in schools and classrooms almost since the Universal Declaration was signed. The question, \"Why teach human rights to elementary students?\" has been answered by educators with compelling rationales for the subject's inclusion in classes. Much of contemporary social studies curriculum would seem almost incomprehensible to us if it were not silhouetted against the backdrop of human rights, including multicultural and antiracist education, law related education and aspects of First Nations Studies. The question classroom teachers find more important to answer is, not why, but, \"How can we teach human rights to elementary students?\"  \nMany teachers are committed to bringing the subject into social studies through community, societal or global issues, and strive to match good resources with sound pedagogy. Their focus is often on teaching about children's rights, based on the belief that these will best engage young children's imaginations and their growing sense of empathy and connection with others. I agree. These teachers also want to find the right balance between realism and hope in teaching a subject that can overwhelm young audiences. In this article, I present ten examples of children's literature that may be unfamiliar to teachers as vehicles for teaching about rights. I also provide a few ideas for using these books to enrich students'understandings of what rights mean, and, importantly, what their absence means to the daily lives of children across the globe.  \nIntroducing the Rights of Children  \nThe book I would recommend for all elementary classrooms is, For Every Child: The rights ofthe child in words andpictures, published in association with UNICEF, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu. It addresses fifteen of the rights articulated at the first UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It's a stunning example of the way rights can be powerfully described and illustrated with children and youths in mind. Each right is simply, yet poetically expressed in text by Caroline Castle. Each is interpreted in a double page illustration by an artist whose brief biography and photograph appears at the end of the book. The fifteen artists are from several continents and many artistic traditions, and are all award winning children's book illustrators. I immediately recognized John Burningham, who delighted many of my own students with Mr. Gumpy 's Outing. The right he pictures is from Article 13, freedom of expression, interpreted here as, \"Allow us to tell you what we are thinking or feeling.  \nWhether our voices are big or small; whether we whisper or shout it, or paint draw, mime or sign it listen to us and hear what we say.\" The watercolour sketch shows a boy leaning toward his father's ear while off to the side an alligator calmly chomps on the boy's bicycle.  \nThe illustrations are themselves lessons on diversity's worth. Right No. 3, ensuring protection and care, is a dreamy, surreal painting of a child sailing through stormy skies and about to land in a woman's arms, household objects floating all around. 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