This book starts out with a young girl who promises her grandfather that she will go to faraway places, live by the sea when she settles down and, most importantly, make the world a more beautiful place. She accomplishes all three tasks and decides to beautify the world by scattering lupine flower seeds all around her town. The next spring, there were lovely lupines everywhere. Now the young girl is old Miss Rumphius who tells her story to children and encourages them to make the world more beautiful as well. The illustrations in this book are absolutely stunning with warm colors and very detailed, down to drawings on the walls of the faraway places Miss Rumphius visited in her youth. As a reader, I felt this story was
about perception and that one beautiful act can inspire many more. Also, this book touches on the stages of life and the lesson that by making ourselves happy we can make others happy as well. As a teacher, I would definitely use this book in my classroom to teach a lesson with older students about analyzing art and the saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Students could also brainstorm ideas to make their school and neighborhoods better and more beautiful places. A science lesson in different types of flowers or a writing lesson about faraway places students want to visit would also work great with this book.
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