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Mr. Gumpy's human and animal friends squash into his old car and go for a drive -- until it starts to rain.Tags
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Very simple, very repetitive, not overly exciting but interesting and calming instead. Very good for naptime or bedtime.
Probably won't hold an older child's attention that well, so leave it to the younger end of the 4-8 crowd, and their younger siblings as well.
Probably won't hold an older child's attention that well, so leave it to the younger end of the 4-8 crowd, and their younger siblings as well.
Good vocabulary (squash, chugged). Children can identify the animals. This story is mostly about how not to be selfish about what you will and will not do, why excuses are not helpful and how to work together to get difficult things done. Good conversation starter there!
Great artwork as always, humorous story of the man who is always joined by a menagerie of animals and 2 kids - this time for a car ride in the country. When the rain comes, they are persuaded to get out and push.
Eh. Friendly, but mindless; perhaps meditative. A book for a younger child than I'd expected.
Mr. Grumpy goes on a day trip, only to have his car stuck in the mud after it starts raining. Needing help, he receives none and everything he asks for help has an excuse. He does eventually get his car out, but realizing you have to be nice in order for people to help you out. Without politeness, it is hard for other people to want to help you out.
This could be neat to discuss first, next, and last. The timeline of events is clear enough that younger kids could enjoy successfully discussing the order of events in this cute book.
John Buningham tells the story of how Mr. Gumpy and his friends go for a ride in his motor car. Everything is fine until they get stuck in mud and no one wants to help push the car out. Grades K - 2
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John Burningham was born in Farnham, United Kingdom on April 27, 1936. After two and a half years of non-military service as a conscientious objector, he graduated from Central School of Art with distinction in 1959. Before becoming a children's author and illustrator, he made puppets for Yoram Gross's animation film Joseph the Dreamer and was show more commissioned to produce a number of posters for London Transport. Burningham's first picture book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, was published in 1963 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal. His other books included Humbert, Avocado Baby, Oi! Get Off Our Train, Courtney, Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present, Come Away from the Water, Shirley, England, Cloudland, France, and There's Going to Be a Baby written with his wife and fellow illustrator Helen Oxenbury. He also illustrated Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964 and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in 1983. He received the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1970 for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, the Kurt Maschler award in 1984 for Granpa, and the Booktrust lifetime achievement award in 2018 with Oxenbury. Burningham died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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