White Ravens’98/Canada/66173
Fitch, Sheree (text)
Labrosse, Darcia (illus.)
If you could wear my sneakers
Toronto: Doubleday, 1997. 32pp
ISBN 0-3-85-25597-7
Children’s Rights - Poetry
In fifteen witty, lively poems and full page backdrop illustrations, Fitch and
Labrosse draw connections to the content and spirit of some of the United
Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of Canada’s leading
poets, Fitch writes in a melodic, rhythmic way with a humor that embodies
the wonderfully childlike - and surely Fitch’s own - perspective on life. Not
in the least pedagogical, the poems have animal protagonists and behave in
a way that corresponds to a basic principle of the convention. At the close
of the book the reader is invited to match the poem 
with the appropriate »right«. (6+)

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