The Sea is So Wide and my Boat is So Small :

Edelman, Marian Wright.

The Sea is So Wide and my Boat is So Small : Charting a course for the next generation / Marian Wright Edelman. - 1st ed. - New York : Hyperion Books, �2008. - xix, 147 pages ; 22 cm

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.

A founder of the Children's Defense Fund evaluates what has been achieved and what still needs to be done in order to make the nation safe and fair for children, in a series of open letters to the author's grandchildren, the nation's leaders, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Child rearing--United States.
Children--Conduct of life.--United States
African American children--Conduct of life.
African American children--Conduct of life.
Child rearing.
Children--Conduct of life.
Moral conditions.
United States--Moral conditions.
African American children--Conduct of life.
Children--United States--Conduct of life.
Child rearing--United States.


United States--Moral conditions.
United States.

Success Relevance Guidance Direction Responsibility Parenting

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