Miss Rumphius [videorecording] / a Spellbound presentation in association with Scholastic, Weston Woods ; co-produced by Sarah Kerruish, Paul R. Gagne ; directed by Paul R. Gagne, Sarah Kerruish, Melissa Reilly ; story and pictures by Barbara Cooney.
Narrated by Claire Danes. Book by Barbara Cooney originally published: New York : Viking Penguin a division of Penguin Books, c1982. Iconographic with live sequences. Cast: Elizabeth Somers, as Miss Rumphius ; children, Dasha Aho, Hillia Aho, Johanna Davis, Finn Glendinning, Rudy Gulani, Rosie Kerruish Jarrett, Katherine Wilkins.
Summary:
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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