From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I
Have the Right to Be a Child and I Have the Right to Save My Planet
comes this beautifully illustrated third book in the series.
I Have the Right to Culture explores a child's right to be curious and
to experience all of humanity's shared knowledge, including music, art,
dance and much more. When a child is born, they learn the language of
their parents, they sing the songs of their grandparents and they eat
the delicious food that their family prepares. They also start to wonder
about the lives of other children who live far away. What languages do
they speak? What songs do they sing? And what games do they play?
Every child has the right to learn about the world they live in,
including its history and its inventions. Every child has the right to
learn about artists, about writers, about potters and photographers and
architects, about musicians and dancers and poets. All of humanity's
treasures are for sharing, and every child has the right to know about
what has come before them! Children have the right to partake in culture
as proclaimed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child.
Told from the perspective of a child, this colorful and vibrant book
explores what it means to be a child who has the right to find beauty in
their world.
Key Text Features
further reading
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details
in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.6
Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in
presenting the ideas or information in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between
illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person,
place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.8
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
