- Fiction, Boats and boating, Animals, Children's fiction
Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.
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Classical in form, spare, effortless and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- John Burningham, Ellen Duthie
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Tandem Library, Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, Japanese, Korean, French
- ISBN
- 9781856561082
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First sentence
“This is Mr. Gumpy.”
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