In the evening Alice sat on her grandfather's knee and listened to his stories of faraway places.
An edition of Miss Rumphius
(1982)
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
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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.
Publish Date
September 1986
Publisher
Perfection Learning Prebound
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Aunts, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's literature, Girls, Great-aunts, Realistic fiction, Nonsexist children's literature, Responsibility in girls, Single women, Voyages and travels, Old age, Lupines, Juvenile literature, Librarians, Grandfathers, Women and the sea, Gardeners, Children's fiction, Family, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Tías, Ficción juvenil, Self-realization, Spanish language materials, Novela juvenil, Desarrollo de sí mismo, Auto-realización, Tias, Fiction, general, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Animals, fiction, Chinese language materials, Bedtime, fiction| Edition | Availability |
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Miss Rumphius
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
0808566555 9780808566557
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Senorita Runfio/Miss Rumphius
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in Spanish
0613028376 9780613028370
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LA Senorita Emilia/Miss Rumphius
March 1994, Ediciones Ekare
Hardcover
in Spanish
9802571105 9789802571109
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Miss Rumphius: Story Tape (StoryTape, Puffin)
April 1, 1994, Puffin
in English
0140950265 9780140950267
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Miss Rumphius
1982, Scholastic
Paperback
in English
- Trumpet Special Edition edition
0590299727 9780590299725
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| July 12, 2024 | Edited by Lisa | merge authors |
| April 27, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
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