Books with author John Burningham

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.An ALA Notable Children's BookA New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's BookA Child Study Association Children's Book of the YearA Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year

Every day John Patrick Norman McHennessy sets off along the road to learn, and every day strange and improbable happenings make him late. To make things worse, his teacher, Sir, never believes his stories. One day, John Patrick Norman McHennessy is able to make it on time and finds that an improbable and strange thing has happened to Sir. Just how the tables are turned provides a twist every child will relish.A Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social StudiesAn IRA Children's ChoiceA Horn Book Fanfare Honor BookFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Adorable Granpa gamely nurses his granddaughter?s dolls, eats her pretend strawberry-flavored ice cream, takes her tobogganing in the snow, and falls in step with her imaginary plans to captain a ship to Africa—like all good grandfathers should. Winner of the Kate Maschler Award, this poignant tale of friendship and loss is one children will long remember.

At last! John Burningham's lavish alphabet book is available in a board book edition that's just right for the youngest audience. Bursting with vigorous color and robust forms that will capture kids' imaginations and help them to remember their ABC's, every spread is a feast for the eye and a springboard for the imagination. Each letter is accompanied by a dazzling illustration of a familiar object--from apple, birds, and clown to xylophone, yacht, and zoo. The corresponding word appears boldly in graphic type, along with the upper- and lowercase versions of the letter.

Harquin the fox lives with his parents at the top of the hill, but at night, when everyone is asleep, he secretly goes down to the valley in search of adventure. Time and again, his father warns him of the dangers, but Harquin refuses to listen, and soon the gamekeeper catches sight of him. Harquin’s family is in despair as the hunt leads up the valley, but Harquin is ready and waiting to lead them on a merry dance.

Illustrated in full color. Only John Burningham--four-time winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year award and twice the recipient of Britain's prestigious Kate Greenaway Award--could have created this subtle and magical fantasy about the dreams of childhood. While hiking in the mountains with his parents, Albert tumbles off a cliff--but is saved by the cloud children who utter magic words that make him very light and keep him from falling. Albert has a wonderful time jumping, swimming, painting, and racing in the sky with the cloud children (he even walks along the jet stream of an airplane!)...until he remembers his mother and father and his own little bed at home. It takes the cloud queen, the man in the moon, and a few more magic words to return Albert to earth. Glorious mixed-media illustrations leap from the oversize pages of this delightful new book by "one of the finest and most original writers at work today" (The New Yorker). A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection.