Barbara Cooney
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Description
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
...Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
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.
8) Ox-cart man
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
Author
Publisher
Audio Bookshelf
Pub. Date
p1996
Description
Island Boy: Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England.
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 things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
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.
13) Island boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island off the coast of New England.
17) Roxaboxen
Author
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
18) Basket moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1998
Description
After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.
20) Emily
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1992
Description
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 specialgifts.
