The cupboard
A child loves to play in the kitchen cupboards though Mummy isn't too pleased.
Main Author: | Burningham, John. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Crowell,
1976, c1975.
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Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
A child loves to play in the kitchen cupboards though Mummy isn't too pleased. |
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Physical Description: |
[19] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
ISBN: |
0690013000 0690013019 (lib. bdg.) : |
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) |