Barbara Cooney
Author
Edition
Unabridged
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
...5) Basket moon
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
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.
8) Ox-cart man
Author
Pub. Date
[2019], 1979.
Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
14) Roxaboxen
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
16) Emily
Author
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 special gifts.