Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small Charting a Course for the Next Generation

Name: Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small Charting a Course for the Next Generation
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ISBN: 9781401323332

ISBN-10: 1401323332

ISBN-13: 9781401323332

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marian Wright Edelman, Marian W. Edelman

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In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded-larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman knows all too well the suffering of so many of our nation's children, who live every day with adversity most of us can barely imagine. In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, Edelman asks difficult questions about what we truly value, and looks hard at what we can-and must-do to build a nation fit for all children.…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publication date: 9/23/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Harold D. Grotevant ,290 McNeal Hall ,Dept. of Social Sciences, University of MN at St. Paul.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



A Letter to Parents



A Letter to Teachers and Educators



A Letter to Neighbors and Community Leaders



A Letter to Faith Leaders



A Letter to Young People: Anchors and Sails for Life's Voyage



A Letter to My Grandchildren, Ellika, Zoe, Elijah, and Levi



A Letter to Our Leaders About America's Sixth Child and the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Crisis



A Letter to Citizens-the Creators of Leaders and Movements



The Mother of All Issues-Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Letter to Mothers, Grandmothers, and All Women



A Letter to Dr. King



A Letter to God: Prayers for Our Children, Country, and World


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