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I Have the Right to Culture
by Alain Serres
Age Range: 6-8
What is culture to you? Perhaps you’ll resonate with this quote from I Have the Right to Culture: “I like the smells that rise from cooking pots, from flowers. I learn to name things and then count them. I repeat the songs my grandparents sing.” What about culture throughout the entire world? The book asks us to consider culture as something that makes our world incredibly special. “The world is huge, and I have the right to know that the Earth, this enormous ball of rock and water, is home to all humans.”
I Have the Right to Culture was written by French author Alain Serres and translated into English by Shelley Tanaka, and it is part of a series with two other books: I Have the Right to Be a Child and I Have the Right to Save My Planet. This particular book in the series emphasizes the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child—specifically the parts that speak directly about culture.
There’s no doubt that anybody reading I Have the Right to Culture would not immediately find something spark within themselves and have the craving to consume culture as soon as they finish reading the last page. Each spread contains so much richness, as seen right on the very first image (as illustrated by Aurélia Fronty) with hands—different coloured hands, with faces painted on each one like gloves—reaching down from a mobile to touch a baby, igniting a whole new life filled with culture. An especially impressive illustration is coupled with the idea of music: there are four whimsical images on the left page of people playing music, and there is an even larger image on the right page of a person making music with six extended arms. Dancers leap across one page completely filled with red, and a person gazes in awe at a geometric assortment of houses rising up a hill on another page. Just as there’s no shortage of wonderful illustrations in the book, readers will be reminded that there’s no shortage of wonderful culture in our world.
Catherine Hurwitz (Aug22)