| Description |
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| 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. |
| Audience |
008+ |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Awards |
Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies 2018. |
| Subject |
Sea poetry.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Adventure & Adventurers.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Transportation / Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft.
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Sea poetry. (OCoLC)fst01110086
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Sea poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, compiler.
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Hansman, Bob, illustrator.
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Hansman, Jovan, illustrator.
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Butson, Denver, 1965- author.
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Dotlich, Rebecca Kai, author.
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Engle, Margarita, author.
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Heard, Georgia, author.
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Hopkins, Lee Bennett, author.
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Janeczko, Paul B., author.
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Lewis, J. Patrick, author.
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Nelson, Marilyn, author.
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Neri, Greg, author.
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Nye, Naomi Shihab, author.
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Wolf, Allan, author.
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Yolen, Jane, author.
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| ISBN |
9781633222762 (hardback) |
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1633222764 (hardback) |
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