Traveling the blue road
Subtitle: poems of the sea
By: collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Bob Hansman & Jovan Hansman
Publisher: Seagrass Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Lake Forest, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781633222762
Subjects: Sea poetry
Description: 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.
Notes: "Poems of migration and resilience by: Denver Butson [and 11 others].

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