Title: Miss Rumphius
First published: 1982
Description: 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.
Subjects: Tías, Aunts, Juvenile fiction, Children's literature, Fiction, Great-aunts, Ficción juvenil, Grandfathers, Voyages and travels, Librarians, Gardeners, Women and the sea, Old age, Lupines
People: Miss Rumphius