Miss Rumphius

By Barbara Cooney

Subjects: Self-realization, Children's literature, Juvenile literature, Ficción juvenil, Animals, fiction, Great-aunts, Nonsexist children's literature, Gardeners, Fiction, general, Librarians, Bedtime, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Women and the sea, Grandfathers, Aunts, Old age, Tias, Girls, Voyages and travels, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Children's fiction, Chinese language materials, Single women, Auto-realización, Lupines, Responsibility in girls, Juvenile fiction, Novela juvenil, Family, fiction, Tías, Realistic fiction, Desarrollo de sí mismo

Description: 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.