Miss RumphiusAuthor/Illustrator Barbara Cooney

Kind of Story

Realistic Fiction

A story that sounds like it could

have happened but is made up

(fiction).

Barbara Cooney

(1917–2000)

Barbara Cooney was an

American children's author

and illustrator of more than

two hundred books and

double Caldecott Medalist.

She has written books for

six decades. Her books

have been translated into

ten languages.

Vocabulary

bushelsbloomed

lupines

headlands

hollows

bloomed

had flowers that opened up; blossomed

lupines

flowers of a certain type that grow in a

cone shaped cluster

bushels

amounts that each equal 32 quarts

headlands

points of high land that stick out into a

body of water

hollows

small valleys

Vocabulary• bloomed had flowers that opened up;

blossomed

• lupines flowers of a certain type that grow in a cone shaped cluster

• bushels amounts that each equal 32 quarts

• headlands points of high land that stick out into a body of water

• hollows small valleys

1. What is the tradition that Miss Rumphius

learns from her grandfather and passes

down to little Alice?

2. Do you think Miss Rumphius has had a

happy life? Why or why not?

3. How is little Alice like Curt in Dancing

Rainbows?