Small Places, Close to Home

This book is a poetic and moving adaptation of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring its seventy-fifth anniversary. It emphasizes that the rights of children and all living beings start in the small, everyday places close to home—like backyards, city parks, schools, and homes. Authored in recognition of the declaration originally drafted by Eleanor Roosevelt and signed in 1948, this adaptation reminds us that we all have inalienable rights and responsibilities to uphold these rights for others. It underscores the importance of living freely, feeling safe, belonging, learning, and dreaming.