Description

Mr. Gumpys Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Childrens Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpys Outing, became the first artist ever to win Englands Kate Greenaway Medal twice.

Mr. Gumpy lives by a river. One sunny day he decides to take a ride in his small boat.

It is such a perfect idea, for such a perfect summer day, that he soon has company: first the children, then the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the chickens, and still others until Mr. Gumpys outing comes to an inevitable but not unhappy, conclusion.

Come for a ride another day, says Mr. Gumpy at the books end. And young readers will return again and again to this sprightly story with its clever, captivating illustrations that reflect the sunlit quality of a lazy summer afternoon.

An ALA Notable Childrens Book
A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Childrens Book
A Child Study Association Childrens Book of the Year
A Library of Congress Childrens Book of the Year

Author: John Burningham
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 03/15/1990
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.80h x 9.60w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780805013153
Language: English