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Mr. Gumpy's outing / John Burningham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Square Fish, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0805007083
  • 9780805007084
  • 0805013156
  • 9780805013153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
  • An ALA Notable Children's Book.
  • Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.
  • A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book.
  • Parents' Choice Paperback Award.
Summary: Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Picturebook BURNINGH JOHN Available 33111010555908
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's Picturebook BURNINGH JOHN Available 33111010555841
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Originally published in 1970 in England by Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

An ALA Notable Children's Book.

Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book.

Parents' Choice Paperback Award.

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