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Mr. Gumpy's Outing

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Gentle river adventure full of playful chaos

This is the kind of picture book children want read again the moment it ends. It has a warm, unhurried charm, with a simple boat ride that turns delightfully crowded and funny. Mr. Gumpy’s calm kindness and Burningham’s sunlit illustrations make it feel like a perfect lazy afternoon in story form.

  • Kate Greenaway Medal (1970)
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book (1972)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Mr. Gumpy's Outing

by John Burningham   |  Ages 0-5
Regular price RM41.00 MYR
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per
Compare to estimated retail price: RM91.00 MYR  
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ISBN: 9780805013153
Authors: John Burningham
Publisher: Square Fish
Date of Publication: 1990-03-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Childrens Classics, Picture Books
Related Topics: Adventure, Nature, Animals, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.99
(rated by 4618 readers)

Description

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, and a Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year.
 

Gentle river adventure full of playful chaos

This is the kind of picture book children want read again the moment it ends. It has a warm, unhurried charm, with a simple boat ride that turns delightfully crowded and funny. Mr. Gumpy’s calm kindness and Burningham’s sunlit illustrations make it feel like a perfect lazy afternoon in story form.

  • Kate Greenaway Medal (1970)
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book (1972)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.