Anna Mertzani • Do I Have the Right to Tell a Story?

Illustration: Iris Samartzi

dimensions 14 × 19,5 cm., pp. 159,
edition 4colour, paperback,
I S B N 978-960-537-337-5
price: 15 €
Apopeira, December 2023

Eight children, one contest, one book.
In a dream place outside the camp, the children record their story and the unexpected events that lead them to an important discovery: Their Rights!
A novel for children aged 10 or older.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is globally considered the most important step in recognizing children as human beings with their own ideas, thoughts and interests.
Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified worldwide, and twenty years have passed since it was unanimously adopted, few people are aware of its existence and its contents.
This book, through an exciting story, brings children into contact with the Convention on their Rights and highlights childhood as a right and a privilege.
— Lambrini Ninetta D. Zoe (MSW), Social Worker, Educator (Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity)

At the end of the book there is an annex with Comprehension Questions as well as the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child simplified.

Anna Mertzani was born in Athens. She has studied at the Preschool Education Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and continued her postgraduate studies on “Child
Care, Law and Practice” at Keele University of England. In her master thesis she dealt with the sexual abuse of children, making a crosscultural comparison between the Greek and the British law. She worked in private education and for the last four years she has been in charge of the PYXIDA Intercultural Center of the Hellenic Council for Refugees.