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Miss Rumphius / story and pictures by Barbara Cooney.
By: Cooney, Barbara [author,, illustrator.]
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TextPublisher: New York : The Viking Press, 1982Copyright date: ©1982Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0670479586; 9780670479580Subject(s): Great-aunts -- Juvenile fiction | Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction | Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction | Librarians -- Juvenile fiction | Gardeners -- Juvenile fiction | Women and the sea -- Juvenile fiction | Old age -- Juvenile fiction | Lupines -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Picture books.Awards: American Book Award.Summary: As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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| FIC CON Look and see what God gave me / | FIC COO The runaway dragon / | FIC COO Big cat, little cat / | FIC COO Miss Rumphius / | FIC COP Dottie / | FIC COP Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird / | FIC COR Wolf in the snow / |
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
American Book Award.