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Mr Gumpy’s Outing
- Author: John Burningham
- Category: Fiction Graphic / Illustrated
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape (UK)
- Pub date: 30 November 1978 (first edition)
- Length: 32 pages
About Mr Gumpy’s Outing
who can imagine living without Mr Gumpy’s Outing?
- Edmund de Waal
One day Mr Gumpy decides to go out in his boat – but everyone else wants to come too! Soon, Mr Gumpy’s boat is full. What do you think happens next?
This picture book classic is celebrating 40 years of entertaining children and adults alike – now with a CD of the story complete with brilliant music and sound effects!
About the Author
John Burningham is one of the UK’s most distinguished illustrators whose appeal is recognized the world over. Born in 1936, he attended the alternative education establishment, Summerhill, in Suffolk, where lessons are not compulsory. At 17, he became a conscientious objector, and avoided military service by joining the Friends Ambulance Unit. After this he did forestry work, farming, slum clearance, school building in Southern Italy and demolition work in Israel. He went to the Central School of Art in London in 1956, graduating in 1959 with a National Diploma in Design, as well as the School’s own Diploma. Unsure of his future, he returned to Israel where he worked on models and puppets for a film company until his return to England in the autumn of 1960 when his life as an illustrator began. He created posters for London Transport, drew cartoons for magazines and made Christmas card designs until the publication of his first book in 1963. He has won the Kate Greenaway medal twice. He is married to Helen Oxenbury, another popular children’s illustrator.