Mr. Gumpys Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Childrens Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpys Outing, became the first artist ever to win Englands 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. Gumpys outing comes to an inevitable but not unhappy, conclusion.Come for a ride another day, says Mr. Gumpy at the books 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 Childrens BookA New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Childrens BookA Child Study Association Childrens Book of the YearA Library of Congress Childrens Book of the Year