Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0670479586 ISBN-13:   9780670479580 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Edition:   illustrated Category:   Picture Books Pub. Date:   November 1982 Pages:   32 Format:   Hardcover; With dust jacket Ages:   4 to 8 Grades:   ps to 3
Awards
1983  National Book Awards  Winner!  1991  Black-Eyed Susan Book Award  Winner!  1991  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  1987  Bluegrass Award  Winner!  1988  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Miss Rumphius wonders how she can make the world more beautiful. 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.