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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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26 editions · 5 languages- Audiobook · English · 2009Puffin · 9780142413876
- Audiobook · English · 1998Recorded Books Inc., · 9780788719011
- Paperback · English · 1995Learning Links · 16 pages · 9781569822388
- Paperback · English · 1995D C Heath & Co · 9780669183160
- Paperback · English · 1991Novel Units · 29 pages · 9781561372584
- Paperback · English · 1982Scholastic · 30 pages · 9780590299725
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