GSU Professor Explores How Children’s Books Teach Human Rights

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September 28th, 2016

Author and illustrator Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, reads from his book “Horton Hears a Who!” to four-year-old Lucinda Bell at his home in La Jolla, Ca., June 20, 1956. (AP Photo)

What can we learn about discrimination from Dr. Seuss? Or standards of living from the “Three Little Pigs?”

Plenty of children’s books teach morals and lessons, but those morals and lessons can teach children about something more: their human rights.

Law professor Jonathan Todres co-wrote ”Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of Law” with Sarah Higinbotham.
Credit Gabbie Watts / WABE
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