Actions for Traveling the blue road : poems of the sea

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

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

Additional Titles
Poems of the sea
Published
Lake Forest, CA : Seagrass Press, 2017.
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Additional Creators
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Hansman, Bob, Hansman, Jovan, Butson, Denver, 1965-, Dotlich, Rebecca Kai, Engle, Margarita, Heard, Georgia, Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Janeczko, Paul B., Lewis, J. Patrick, Nelson, Marilyn, Neri, Greg, Nye, Naomi Shihab, Wolf, Allan, and Yolen, Jane

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

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.
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.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9781633222762 hardback
1633222764 hardback
Collection
Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.
Interest Age
008+
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.
Rare Books copy: (2nd prt.--sequential number line "10-2" on verso of title-page); in publisher's color pictorial boards and original dust jacket (price "$17.95" intact on front jacket flap); EDITOR'S COPY (formerly owned by Lee Bennett Hopkins).
Source of Acquisition
Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.
Related Materials
Forms part of the Lee Bennett Hopkins papers (09945).
Awards
Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies 2018.
View MARC record | catkey: 25051931