It struck me immediately that this straightforward Dr. Seuss passage was a clearer and more succinct articulation of the foundational principles of human rights—human dignity, equality, nondiscrimination—than I had heard or read from any legal scholar or legal philosopher. Spurred by that discovery, I began examining children’s literature for human rights themes. For reasons I will come back to shortly, the project evolved slowly. But as I explored children’s literature, I found a wealth of stories that considered human rights themes, and in some cases, the narratives confronted these themes head-on. Many of these stories reinforced the concept of human rights for children, while others seemed to reject the idea that children have rights at all. Those discoveries inspired me to write an article on children’s rights in children’s literature. I welcomed the idea as a break from my usual research, much of which focuses on child trafficking and related forms of exploitation. Three additional ideas ultimately convinced me that this project could have important implications for how individuals learn about their rights and their duties to respect the rights of others, and more broadly how human rights norms are disseminated.