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Miss Rumphius

Barbara Cooney

198232 pagesabout 30–45 minutes
1982
first published
  • 1982Viking Press · 32 pages · ENGISBN 9780670479580
  • 1982MacRae · 32 pages · ENGISBN 9780862031008
  • 1990Walker · ENGISBN 9780744514728

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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