Picnic
Boy and Girl go out for a picnic and meet all sorts of animals along the way.
Main Author: | Burningham, John (Author) |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2014.
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Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
Boy and Girl go out for a picnic and meet all sorts of animals along the way. |
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Item Description: |
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. |
Physical Description: |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
ISBN: |
9780763669454 0763669458 |
Author Notes: |
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) |