Miss Rumphius

Miss Rumphius

Barbara Cooney, 1917-2000

Book - 1982

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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Subjects
Great-aunts > Juvenile fiction.
Aunts > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : Viking Press [1982]
Language
English
Main Author
Barbara Cooney, 1917-2000 (-)
Physical Description
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Audience
680L
ISBN
9780670479580
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Review by Booklist Review

Ages 3-9. When Great-Aunt Alice was little she decided to go to faraway places and then live by the sea like her grandfather, who told her to help make the world more beautiful. Now the children call her the Lupine Lady.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

You might almost believe that Barbara Cooney had a Great-Aunt Alice Rumphius who did just as we read here--else why go to the trouble of spinning out a yarn, composed of transparent storybook motifs (an elderly grandfather who carves ships' figureheads; travels to exotic places; a solitary cottage by the sea), just to arrive at an old lady who strews lupine seeds about? Ostensibly, she's fulfilling her promise to her grandfather to ""do something to make the world more beautiful""; in Barbara Cooney's precisionist Maine coast pictures, the drifts of lupine blooms are a tribute to the lupine lady per se. It's a lovely notion, in short, if not much (or too much) of a story. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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