Traveling the blue road : poems of the sea /
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 pat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lake Forest, CA :
Seagrass Press,
2017.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Poems of migration and resilience by: Denver Butson [and 11 others]." |
| Physical Description: | 32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Audience: | 008+ |
| ISBN: | 9781633222762 1633222764 |