Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Traveling the blue road

Responsibility statement

collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Bob Hansman & Jovan Hansman

Sub title

poems of the sea

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification