Miss Rumphius | Picture Book | Ages 5-8

Alice dreams of traveling the world, living by the sea, and doing one more important thing: making the world more beautiful.

Her answer? Lupines. Lots and lots of lupines.

A lovely little story about adventure, purpose, and leaving the world a bit more beautiful than you found it.

• 32 pages
• Ages 5-8
• Written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney, Caldecott Medal winner
• Features lupines blooming along the Maine coast
• Available in paperback (published Nov 06, 1985)
• Available in hardcover (published Nov 08, 1982)
• Available as ebook (published Nov 06, 1985)
• Audiobook version published Feb 13, 2018, 8 minutes, read by Ellen Archer
• Somebody named a character Miss Rumphius and refused to apologize for it