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I Have the Right to Culture explores a child's right to be curious and to experience all of humanity's shared knowledge, including music, art, dance and much more. When a child is born, they learn the language of their parents, they sing the songs of their grandparents and they eat the delicious food that their family prepares. They also start to wonder about the lives of other children who live far away. What languages do they speak? What songs do they sing? And what games do they play? Every child has the right to learn about the world they live in, including its history and its inventions. Every child has the right to learn about artists, about writers, about potters and photographers and architects, about musicians and dancers and poets. All of humanity's treasures are for sharing, and every child has the right to know about what has come before them! Children have the right to partake in culture as proclaimed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Told from the perspective of a child, this colorful and vibrant book explores what it means to be a child who has the right to find beauty in their world.

漫步在舞蹈、音樂、繪畫、戲劇……的國度，發現各式各樣的美好感動，躲藏在「文化」這個字背後。我們夢想有那麼一天，世界上所有的小孩都可以在自由的環境裡長大，都可以得到科學家、街頭藝人、藝術家的作品滋養。本書由《國際兒童權利公約》中四大兒童基本權利的「參與權」出發，講述每個孩子都有受到母語、歌謠、美術、戲劇、音樂等等滋養的權利，因為唯有了解屬於自己民族的歷史、接觸別的小孩和他們的文化，孩子才能在這個世上找到他的定位、他的立足點，以及最重要的─—他的未來。作者透過文字告訴我們，孩子不僅應該擁有受教育的權利和學習藝術、享有文化生活的權利，有權利學習如何透過創作與世界溝通，有權利在快樂的時候自由的跳舞歡唱，更有權利用他的雙眼自己去發現這個世界的美。沒有人可以剝奪小孩了解、參與自己文化及歷史的權利，因為，孩子是為了尋找世界的美，才誕生的。