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Genre/Form: | Picture books for children Picture books Fictional Work Embossed works (visual works) Paper case bindings Book jackets Fiction Juvenile works Dust jackets (Bindings) Publishers' advertisements Authors' autographs (Provenance) Romans Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000. Miss Rumphius. New York : Viking Press, [1982] (OCoLC)564752246 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Cooney |
ISBN: | 0670479586 9780670479580 |
OCLC Number: | 8283185 |
Credits: | Music composed by John Jennings. |
Cast: | Cast: Narrated by Claire Danes. |
Awards: | American Book Award. |
Target Audience: | 680L |
Description: | 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm |
Responsibility: | story and pictures by Barbara Cooney. |
More information: |
Abstract:
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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