Mama, Across the Sea Hardcover – June 1, 2000. Godard, who was born in Guadeloupe and now lives in France, shows Cecile walking by herself along a beach of breathtaking beauty, visiting a fisherman and generally exhibiting a freedom of movement that many children would envy.

Mama, Across the Sea Hardcover – June 1, 2000. by. Alex Godard (Author). When her mother writes that she has no days off and won't be coming to see her this year, Cecile cradles her head in her lap, her grief palpable to the viewer.

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Multicultural Reality. by Alex Godard. A little girl in Port Royal describes everyday life and folktales from her island in Port Royal as she waits for her mother to return from a cold land far across the sea. GoodReads! summary. A Season for Mangoes. adopted from the French by George Wen. illustrated by Alex Godard.

There's a girl, across the sea And though I'm happy being loved It doesn't feel like love to me Never feels like love to m.

There's a girl, across the sea And though I'm happy being loved It doesn't feel like love to me Never feels like love to me. There's a girl, next to me And she's happy being lovely And it's not enough for me It's not enough for me. You're out of mind, I'm out of time I only want what I can't see And I will wait for her to run to m. And the girl, who's 'cross the sea And traveled halfway 'round the world To be the perfect girl for me In all the ways you used to be. You're out of mind, I'm out of time I only want what I can't see And everything about her is new to me. Now I see everything we do as the routine Familiarity breeds awful things in me.

Mama, across the sea. Written and illustrated by Alex Godard. Adapted from the French by George Wen. Holt. Ages 4 to 8) Cecile sits on the hot roof of a tiny house on a tiny tropical island, waiting for her mother. Her father was lost at sea, and now Mama has gone away to work in a cold country, leaving the little girl with her illiterate grandparents. Cecile, who can read and write, gives lessons to her grandmother. One day a letter from Mama brings an invitation for Cecile to go and visit. The blurred faces in lush illustrations do not diminish the tale's complex emotions.

All Frederick George Scott poems Frederick George Scott Books. Across the Sea" Poetry.

Books Across the Sea was a cultural and literary movement begun in 1940 as the result of the stopping of the transatlantic trade in printed books

Books Across the Sea was a cultural and literary movement begun in 1940 as the result of the stopping of the transatlantic trade in printed books. At that time there was a ban on the import and export of non-essential goods into Britain to free-up shipping space for more essential goods. Books Across the Sea was founded in 1940 by Beatrice Warde to help offset Nazi propaganda among other expatriate Americans remaining in London after the fall of France.