Barbara Cooney
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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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Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan. This beloved classic and celebration of nature-written by a beloved Caldecott winner-is lovelier than ever!
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation....
4) Eleanor
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Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.
5) Island boy
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Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island out in the bay.
8) Ox-cart man
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
11) Roxaboxen
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A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
12) Emily
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When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.
16) Miss Rumphius
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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; she does them all, the last being the hardest of all.
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Players in pigtails: Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II.
Miss Rumphius: 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...
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Johnny Appleseed: Johnny Appleseed began traveling west as a young man, planting apple seeds in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and northern Indiana, leaving a legacy of achievement, fruit, and the spread of civilization to through the American frontier. Miss Rumphius: traveled near and far, witnessing beauty of all kinds, and went on to help make the world a more beautiful place with a simple handful of seeds.