Brittain Fellow Sarah Higinbotham is the co-author of Human Rights in Children's Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of Law (Oxford University Press), along with Georgia State Law Professor Jonathan Todres. Human Rights in Children's Literature investigates children's rights under international law ─ identity and family rights, the right to be heard, the right to be free from discrimination, and other civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights ─ and considers the way in which those rights are embedded in children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Horton Hears a Who! to Harry Potter. This book traverses children's rights law, literary theory, and human rights education to argue that in order for children to fully realize their human rights, they first have to imagine and understand them.

The Association for Childhood Education International has described the book as “groundbreaking” and a “must read." Oxford University Press has highlighted its role in addressing the new frontier of children's rights in international law.