''Mr Gumpy's Outing'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by

John Burningham John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last publis ...

and published by

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in 1970. According to library catalogue summaries, "All the animals went for a boat ride with Mr Gumpy. Then the boat got too heavy ..."; "Mr Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs." Burningham won the annual

Kate Greenaway Medal The Kate Greenaway Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) ...

from the

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, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a

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, and the

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, a similar award by a magazine for a picture books published in the United States. Beside the Greenaway Medal, ''Mr Gumpy's Outing'' won the 1972

for Picture Book (U.S.) and some honor from the

Biennial of Illustration Bratislava The Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) is one of the oldest international honours for children's book illustrators. First granted in 1967 to Yasuo Segawa (Japan), it is one of the more prestigious children's book awards today, along with t ...

. It also made several annual booklists.

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published a U.S. edition in October 1971 (32pp, ). According to ''

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'', "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 the bumbling charm of an English Mr Hulot and his outing is an unqualified pleasure."

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* —immediately, first edition * —immediately, first US edition
"John Burningham – a life in pictures"
a 13-picture gallery, ''The Guardian'' 21 March 2011 —includes two pages from Mr Gumpy British picture books Kate Greenaway Medal winning works 1970 children's books Jonathan Cape books {{child-picture-book-stub

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