Miss Rumphius

Author - Barbara Cooney ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Puffin was reviewed on 31-Jul-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Miss Rumphius by Puffin. First, let me mention that this is a pretty wordy book. Maybe a bit too wordy, because it does seem to drag on in parts. I´m constantly cutting out a paragraph here or there because it doesn´t add much to the story and I really want to get on with things anyway.

And, you know, it is a nice story - about a woman who "makes the world more beautiful" by planting lupines - but there just isn´t much to it.

It´s not very compelling to me. We read it only occasionally.¤

2) Paperback Book Miss Rumphius by Puffin. A co-worker talked about this book at an event and after previewing it, I took it out from the library for then four year old. A few months later, when we are at a book store, she spotted it and had to buy it as a present to herself for turning 5 - with her own birthday money. I think that says volumes to the books lasting power. The story is sweet, the drawings are excellent, and the message is lasting. Nice read for a parent to a child at the end of a long day.¤

3) Paperback Book Miss Rumphius by Puffin. This is a great story about giving back something in life. Great gift idea when combined with a real Lupine plant or seeds. Then the story and flower will be remembered forever.¤

4) Paperback Book Miss Rumphius by Puffin. I just left home and school to live on my own as an intern in DC. I´ve been doing lots of responsible adult type activities, cooking, waking up early, cleaning etc and was feeling a little strange about feeling so old. As I was walking to work this morning, I took a slightly different route that had a house with lupines just covering their yard. They looked so beautiful in the morning. I immediately thought to myself "what was that book with these flowers??" and called up my lovely mother. It felt like a long lost dream. I could remember the symbolism, but not the specifics. When I was young, I think I was enthralled with little Alice being able to paint the clouds and even more so when she becomes a librarian and transforms the landscape by the sea. This is a truly amazing book. I´m going to walk to the library tonight and check it out again. It definitely made me appriciate beauty in the world as a child, and through my memory of it, as an adult.¤

5) Paperback Book Miss Rumphius by Puffin. This book is a short biography of Barbara Conney´s great Aunt Alice Rumphius, who grew up in New England, loved the sea, and wanted to visit faraway places. And also had an objective to do something to make the world more beautiful. I have always loved this book and have had that very same goal ever since the fifth grade when our homeroom teacher read it to us. The book concludes when Barbara Cooney the author says that her Aunt Alice (Miss Rumphius,) tells her that she too needs to do something to make the world more beautiful. But even SHE doesn´t know yet what that could be. I personally think that she made the world more beautiful by writing and illustrated this masterpiece. Everybody young and old should have a copy.¤

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