We Are All Born Free

This large format picture book has been published in association with Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A page or double spread is devoted to each of the thirty articles of the Declaration, each of which has been illustrated by a different artist.

It is a salutary read, of course, and would provide much to discuss with children within the Citizenship curriculum as well as in politically aware families at home. The illustrations are very varied, both in style and effectiveness, but the majority have something to commend them. The many ways of showing ‘everyone’ are interesting, and some of the pictures, such as Alan Lee’s haunting pencil drawing where the right to travel freely is represented by paper cranes caught in a barbed wire fence, are particularly noteworthy.