Stand Up for Your Rights

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, this title has all the strengths and weaknesses you would expect for a book written and illustrated by young people from all over the world and edited by committee (or in this case two editorial committees and a Design and Illustration team). Wonderfully comprehensive in its treatment, the book takes each article of the Declaration, explains it simply and then illustrates through case study, poems and pictures how these rights are abused or ignored around the world. Plenty of information, then, although the artwork, gathered from around the world, varies in quality. A very handy book to support PSHE work on Human Rights but children will need to be directed to it - it is not one to just put on the shelves and hope it will go.