{"id":155,"date":"2018-11-19T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-11-18T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T22:27:42","slug":"traveling-the-blue-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/traveling-the-blue-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling the Blue Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7635\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blueroad-595x797.jpg?resize=525%2C703\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"703\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Kc5cxz\">Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea<\/a><br \/>\nby Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor) with Bob and Jovan Hansman (Illustrators)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A collection of poetry for children on the themes of the courage, beauty, and promise of sea voyages.<\/p>\n<p>Compiled and edited by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, the poems describe how the sea has historically shone as a metaphor for both hope and despair, and served as a pathway for people searching for new life. Included are 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.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing poets include Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Paul B. Janeczko, J. Patrick Lewis, Allan Wolf, Marilyn Nelson, Denver Butson, Georgia Heard, Jane Yolen, Naomi Shihab Nye, and G. Neri, and Margarita Engle, the current Young People&#8217;s Poet Laureate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Seventeenth Century \/ The Mayflower, 1620<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>WITH FEARLESS FAITH<br \/>\nAND EVERYTHING TO LOSE<\/strong><br \/>\nby Allan Wolf<\/p>\n<p>One hundred and two hopeful souls all climb aboard,<br \/>\nwith thirty or so salty dogs to crew them on.<br \/>\nOne hundred and two faces turn upward to the Lord.<br \/>\nOne hundred and two prayers blow windward and they\u2019re gone.<br \/>\nOne hundred and two faithful huddle in the hold,<br \/>\namidst the massive sea, their ship a fragile fleck.<br \/>\nThe mainmast cracks. The heathen winds harass and scold.<br \/>\nThe brutal cold Atlantic swamps the sagging deck.<br \/>\nBut through the mist and foam they somehow reach the land.<br \/>\nAnd cradled safe (for now) at last in Cape Cod Bay,<br \/>\ntheir pilgrim journey ends the same as it began:<br \/>\nwith one hundred and two facing heavenward to pray.<br \/>\nThey risked it all to worship as they choose,<br \/>\nwith fearless faith and everything to lose.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7639\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blueroadpage.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media\/vc\/79aa594f-6053-4823-af8c-0a2da921007b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View larger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cybils-Logo-2018-Round150px.png?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/about-the-cybils-awards\/frequently-asked-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 Cybils Poetry nominee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor) with Bob and Jovan Hansman (Illustrators) Booktalk: A collection of poetry for children on the themes of the courage, beauty, and promise of sea voyages. Compiled and edited by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, the poems describe how the sea has historically &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/traveling-the-blue-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traveling the Blue Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-2v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/bold-women-in-nevada-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":0},"title":"Bold Women in Nevada History","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"September 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Bold Women in Nevada History by Kay Moore (Author) Booktalk: From Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute who worked as an interpreter, to Mary Fulstone, a rural doctor who traveled through heat, snow, and mud to deliver more than 4,000 babies during her career, to Felice Cohn, who became the fourth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nonfiction Monday Round-up&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nonfiction Monday Round-up","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/category\/nonfiction-monday-round-up\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boldwomennevada-595x893.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boldwomennevada-595x893.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boldwomennevada-595x893.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1174,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/secrets-of-the-sea-the-story-of-jeanne-power-revolutionary-marine-scientist\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":1},"title":"Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist","author":"@roberta3","date":"October 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking for a new picture book biography? 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