Mr. Gumpy's Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpy's Outing, became the first artist ever to win England's 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. Gumpy's outing comes to an inevitable but not unhappy, conclusion.
"Come for a ride another day," says Mr. Gumpy at the book's 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 Children's Book
A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book
A Child Study Association Children's Book of the Year
A Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year
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John Burningham earned the Kate Greenaway Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, and it's no wonder. This gifted and highly original author-illustrator creates a vision of glorious summer with deeply textured, sometimes only suggested, drawings. His tentatively questioning animals are ready to step right out of the pages and quietly join the delighted reader. And the simple, repetitive dialogue will lull the listener as long as it takes to reach the boat's maximum capacity. Even then, there's no big splash--just an understated, Burningham-esque "and into the water they fell." Young readers will never tire of this gentle, comforting storybook. (Ages 2 to 6) --Emilie Coulter
"Mr. Gumpy's little scow becomes a miniature ark when he takes two children and one each of the various domestic animals for a ride. . . . The water appears so warmly inviting, and the tea they all share so satisfying, that the promise of the first glowing page is fulfilled. Burningham's sketchy yellow lines make the sun shine on his pages, and his animals--sometimes jaunty, more often appealingly hesitant--are his alone, unostentatiously distinctive. Mr. Gumpy has bumbling charm, and his outing is an unqualified pleasure." --Kirkus Reviews
"A real charmer of a picture book for the very young." --Booklist
"Mr. Grumpy's Outing is out of sight." --School Library Journal
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. John Burningham (Author & Illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright.1998, Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Edition. Illustrated boards/New. DJ/None as Issued. Illuminating, illustrated story of friendliness, generosity, goodwill of an adult's understanding of developing concepts of "promises" given by the very young and their notions of time by English author & illustrator John Burningham (1936 ? 2019). First published 1970. Mr. Gumpy, housed by a river, has a boat. One day he goes boating. Two children approach him & asked to go along --- he said yes if "they didn't squabble". Then the same request was made by a rabbit, he said "Yes, but don't hop about." So it was their ranks were swelled by a cat, a dog, a pig, a sheep, chickens, a calf, a goat conditioned on good behavior. All mannerly at first, they soon forgot their promises, and, all fall out of the boat, including Mr. Grumpy!!! Swimming to land, drying out in the hot sun, they cross fields and are invited to tea at Mr. Gumpy's house! And nice, accepting Mr. Grumpy invites all for another boating together on another day! Tale for young & old. Seller Inventory # 020588
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