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.
本書榮獲波士頓環球報號角書獎以及美國圖書館協會最佳童書獎。本書插畫家約翰．伯明翰更成為史上首位兩次獲頒英格蘭凱特格林威勳章的藝術家。
甘伯伯住在河邊。在一個天氣晴朗的日子，他決定搭他的小船游河。
如此完美的夏日和棒呆的主意，很快就吸引夥伴同行：最先是小孩、然後是小兔、小貓、小狗、小豬、小綿羊、小雞群和其它許多成員，直到——甘伯伯的郊遊無可避免但快樂地結束。
本書最後，甘伯伯說「改天再一起來遠足」。本書巧妙、迷人的手法在插畫裡刻劃出慵懶的午後陽光，一切如此舒適和煦，值得孩童在開朗的故事情節裡一再回味。
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