- Aunts, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's literature
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, warm and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Barbara Cooney
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- D C Heath & Co, Viking Juvenile, Puffin
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781484429334
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“A San Nicolas, santo patrono de los ninos, los marineros y las doncellas.”
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published over sixty years. She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982). Her books have been translated into 10 languages. For her contribution as a children's illustrator, Cooney was the U.S. nominee in 1994 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books.
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