a book we love
for the re-read pile.Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
For spring
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what's inside.
The story.
Alice Rumphius grows up dreaming of traveling the world, living by the sea, and doing something to make the world more beautiful. She fulfills the first two wishes with ease, but the third proves to be the greatest challenge - until she discovers the perfect way to scatter beauty across the countryside by planting lupine flowers everywhere she goes.
how it's shelved.
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The tags we filed this book under, so you can follow the thread to more like it.
Nature
FlowersGardenSeasons
Themes
CommunityCultureDeathFamilyHistoryHomeSociety
Seasons
SpringSummer
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