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.
year: 1985, 1982, 1994, 1998
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: aunts, fiction, great-aunts, audiobooks, children's audiobooks
Editions
Cooney, Barbara
Puffin Books (1985)
Great-aunt Alice Rumphius was once a little girl who loved the sea, longed to visit faraway places, and wished to do something to make the world more beautiful.
Schools: 54
Cooney, Barbara
Viking Press (1982)
After making her girlhood dreams of world travel and living by the sea come true, a retired librarian follows her grandfather's old advice of doing something to make the world more beautiful, and then passes that wisdom on to her grandniece.
Schools: 69
Cooney, Barbara
Puffin (1994)
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.
Schools: 0
Cooney, Barbara
Recorded Books, LLC (1998)
Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved when young that she would someday travel to faraway places, live by the sea, and accomplish something to make the world more beautiful.
Schools: 1
Cooney, Barbara
Schools: 0
Cooney, Barbara
Schools: 1
Cooney, Barbara
Schools: 1