Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
A note from Maude: If you love Maine, you have to have this book. It is the story of a woman who leaves her fancy life in the city, moves to an island in Maine, and plants lupin, the Maine state flower.
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.
A note from Maude: If you love Maine, you have to have this book. It is the story of a woman who leaves her fancy life in the city, moves to an island in Maine, and plants lupin, the Maine state flower.
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.
A note from Maude: If you love Maine, you have to have this book. It is the story of a woman who leaves her fancy life in the city, moves to an island in Maine, and plants lupin, the Maine state flower.
Miss Rumphius is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney and originally published by the Viking Press in 1982. It features the life story of fictional Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful and found it in planting lupines in the wild.