Miss Rumphius

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • animals, fiction
  • aunts
  • auto-realización
  • bedtime, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • children's literature
  • chinese language materials
  • desarrollo de sí mismo
  • family, fiction
  • ficción juvenil
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • gardeners
  • girls
  • grandfathers
  • great-aunts
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile literature
  • librarians
  • literature and fiction, juvenile
  • lupines
  • nonsexist children's literature
  • novela juvenil
  • old age
  • realistic fiction
  • responsibility in girls
  • self-realization
  • single women
  • spanish language materials
  • tias
  • tías
  • voyages and travels
  • voyages and travels, fiction
  • women and the sea