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

Lake Forest, CA : Seagrass Press, 2017.

32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

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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Sea poetry.

Butson, Denver, 1965- author.

Dotlich, Rebecca Kai, author.

Engle, Margarita, author.

Heard, Georgia, author.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett, author.

Janeczko, Paul B., author.

Lewis, J. Patrick, author.

Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- author.

Neri, Greg, author.

Nye, Naomi Shihab, author.

Wolf, Allan, author.

Yolen, Jane, author.

Hopkins, Lee Bennett, compiler.

Hansman, Bob, illustrator.

Hansman, Jovan, illustrator.

Poems of the sea

"Poems of migration and resilience by: Denver Butson [and 11 others]"--From back cover.

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.

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