num_pages: 32
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 BookA New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's BookA Child Study Association Children's Book of the YearA Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year
language: English
title: Mr. Gumpy's Outing
titlecomplete: Mr. Gumpy's Outing
genres: Fiction, Storytime, Animals, Adventure, Picture Books, British Literature, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Transport
ratings_count: 4491
series: Mr. Gumpy
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Kate Greenaway Medal, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Picture Book
publisher: Square Fish