Mr Gumpy's Outing is a children's picture book written and illustrated by John Burningham and published by Jonathan Cape in 1970.
[1] According to library catalogue summaries, "All the animals went for a boat ride with Mr Gumpy.
[citation needed] Holt, Rinehart and Winston published a U.S. edition in October 1971 (32pp, ISBN 080503854X).
[4] According to Kirkus Reviews, "Burningham's sketchy yellow lines make the sun shine on his pages, and his animals — sometimes jaunty, more often appealingly hesitant — are his alone, unostentatiously distinctive.
Mr. Gumpy has the bumbling charm of an English Mr Hulot and his outing is an unqualified pleasure.