Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney's famous tale Miss Rumphius is paired with her own favorite - Island Boy -in this recording. Miss Rumphius exhorts the listener to follow her example in life - conciously do somthing to make the world more beautiful. In Island Boy the full circle of life is told - young Mathais is born on an island off the coast of Maine, and lives a good long life of hard work and loving family, altho' it's not without

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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.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.