Barbara Cooney is known more as an illustrator, but she wrote and illustrated this book for which she won the National Book Award for picture books. This book has delightful pictures of the sea and the Northeast. The girl in the story has three goals, to travel, to live by the sea, and to make the world more beautiful. Miss Rumphius travels, but eventually her body gets tired; So she settles in a home by the sea. She loves the Lupine flowers, and takes it upon herself to plant their seeds everywhere. In this way she completes her third goal. As she grew old, she would tell her great nieces and nephews that they should have the same goals. This book reminds me that we all have parenting roles, whether as a father or mother or aunt or uncle. We all play a part in rearing children.
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