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Traveling the blue road : poems of the sea / collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Bob Hansman & Jovan Hansman.

Format Book and Print
Publication Info Lake Forest, CA : Seagrass Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Description32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Sea poetry.
Other author/creatorHopkins, Lee Bennett compiler.
Other author/creatorHansman, Bob, illustrator.
Other author/creatorHansman, Jovan, illustrator.
Other author/creatorButson, Denver, 1965- author.
Other author/creatorDotlich, Rebecca Kai author.
Other author/creatorEngle, Margarita author.
Other author/creatorHeard, Georgia author.
Other author/creatorHopkins, Lee Bennett author.
Other author/creatorJaneczko, Paul B. author.
Other author/creatorLewis, J. Patrick author.
Other author/creatorNelson, Marilyn, author.
Other author/creatorNeri, Greg author.
Other author/creatorNye, Naomi Shihab author.
Other author/creatorWolf, Allan author.
Other author/creatorYolen, Jane author.
Contents Introduction -- Forward -- The fifteenth century : Columbus's Voyage, 1492 -- The seventeenth century : the Dutch slave trade, 1619 ; the Mayflower, 1620 -- The eighteenth century : the middle passage -- The nineteenth century : The Margaret, 1837 ; Irish potato famine, 1845-1852 -- The twentieth century : the Titanic, 1912 ; the voyage of the MS St. Louis, 1939 ; The Mariel boat lift, 1980 -- The twenty-first century : Mediterranean refugee crisis, 2014 ; the Sama-Bajau, present day -- Aft.
Abstract Gorgeous illustrations surround a collection of poetry written for children about the magic, beauty, and promise of sea voyages. Compiled and edited by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, the poems describe how the sea has historically shone as a metaphor for hope and despair and served as a pathway for people searching for new life, including poems about the pilgrims coming to the New World, the Mariel boatlift, the Vietnamese boat people, a Dutch slave ship, the current migration situation in the Mediterranean, and the voyage of the St. Louis.
General note"Poems of migration and resilience by: Denver Butson, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Margarita Engle, Georgia Heard, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Paul B. Janeczko, J. Patrick Lewis, Marilyn Nelson, G. Neri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Allan Wolf, Jane Yolen"--back cover.
Genre/formPoetry.
ISBN9781633222762 hardback
ISBN1633222764 hardback

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