Entry Number: 66
Title: Miss Rumphius
Author: Barbara Cooney
Illustrator: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Viking Press
Year: 1982
Title: Miss Rumphius
Author: Barbara Cooney
Illustrator: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Viking Press
Year: 1982
ISBN: 978-0140505399
Genre: Fiction
Topics: flowers, giving, caring, nature, spring, gardening
Genre: Fiction
Topics: flowers, giving, caring, nature, spring, gardening
Age Group: 3-8
Awards: National Book Award (Children's Picture Books, 1983), A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1983)
Dewey Category: 813.11
Format: Picture book
After hearing her grandfather tell her to make the world more beautiful, Miss Rumphius grows up with just such a mission in mind. Travel with her to far and exotic locales to discover that beauty can found right at home, with the help of some lupine flower seeds and the wind. Young readers will get a glimpse of what it means to change the world for the good in this wonderfully illustrated, lyrically beautiful story.
Awards: National Book Award (Children's Picture Books, 1983), A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1983)
Dewey Category: 813.11
Format: Picture book
After hearing her grandfather tell her to make the world more beautiful, Miss Rumphius grows up with just such a mission in mind. Travel with her to far and exotic locales to discover that beauty can found right at home, with the help of some lupine flower seeds and the wind. Young readers will get a glimpse of what it means to change the world for the good in this wonderfully illustrated, lyrically beautiful story.
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