Miss Rumphius / story and pictures by Barbara Cooney.

0670479586 (hardback)
9780670479580 (hardback)
9781442011335 (PawPrints)
1442011335 (PawPrints)
1555929486
9781555929480

New York : The Viking Press, 1982.

©1982

United States -- New York -- New York.

English

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm

CMC PZ7 .C783 Mi 1982

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"Once, long ago, Miss Rumphius was a little girl named Alice who lived in a city by the sea. When she grew up, she wanted to travel and see faraway places and then come home to live beside the sea, just as her grandfather had. But there was one thing more she had to do. "What is that?" Alice asked her grandfather. "You must do something to make the world more beautiful," he told her. Little Alice grew up to become Miss Rumphius, and true to her promise to herself, she traveled all over the world. Then she came home to live in a house by the sea. Miss Rumphius was almost happy. But there was one more thing she had to do. Barbara Cooney has illustrated more than one hundred picture books, including two Caldecott Award winners. In this simple, beautiful, and very personal story, drawn from the imagination and from the heart, she gives us the life - and the legacy - of an artist." -- Book Jacket.

Music composed by John Jennings.

Cast: Narrated by Claire Danes.

Cast: Narrated by Claire Danes.

680L Lexile.

American Book Award.
A New York times Best Book of the Year.

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