Dreams of Freedom

I bought this with the hope of encouraging my son's empathy and care for the people and world around us. It leads to lots of questions and googling. Gorgeous book with a positive message.

Love this book. It's a brilliant buy

As expected. Thanks.

Beautiful book with a message

A must on every book shelf!

Fabulous book. Great pictures and quotations.

I belong to Amnesty International and travel. I dreamed to be free. An interesting book to state with my nearly 6 year old granddaughter.

I read this in a bookshop today with my 4 year old daughter. Each 'freedom' is illustrated by a different piece of art in varying styles. The images and accompanying quotes are worthy a gallery exhibition in themselves, but they've been cleverly presented here in the guise of a children's book.This is the first time my daughter has consciously been engaged by the concept of freedom, and the first time she has really talked about the fact that many people in our world, even in our country, do not not fully enjoy many of the freedoms that this book is about - not least the freedom from fear, freedom of expression or the freedom to have a home.We talked about the freedom to have an education and I told her how, in some countries, girls are not allowed to have an education. She asked 'why' and we talked about how some people try to force their view of the world onto others. We talked about freedom of expression, and when I said that Governments sometimes try to stop people saying or drawing things she also asked 'why' - I explained that its partly because some people like to force their view into others but also because Governments are afraid of ideas that could weaken their power.That people have their homes taken away from them, or are denied an education or are locked up for drawing something, came as a genuine shock to my daughter and it upset her a little - she withdraw into herself and told me that she felt sad. We talked about how, although there are bad things in the world, the world is still a fine place with a lot of good people in it and that it's our job to make it better by doing what we can to ensure that people have these freedoms - that made a her feel better, that and a smarties cookie from the bookshop cafe.