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
A lullaby in which we see everyone at the end of the day, tired and ready for bed - the cat and her kittens, a family of bears, a fish, a goose, a frog, even the man in the moon.
One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat - the only thing is that everyone else wants to come to! Soon the boat is full of children, animals and of course Mr Gumpy too. Ever
