九項歐美圖畫書大獎肯定
　　1970　年英國凱特格林納威大獎　　1971　捷克布拉迪斯國際插畫雙年展獎　　1971　美國圖書館協會優良童書大獎　　1971　紐約時報最佳插畫童書獎　　1971　美國「學校圖書館雜誌」傑出圖書　　1971　美國兒童研究學會年度童書獎　　1972　美國波士頓環球報 / 號角書雜誌圖畫書大獎　　1972　童書櫥窗精選　　1990　家長精選獎
　　住在河邊的甘伯伯要划船出遊，沿途遇到小朋友與動物們要求上船同遊，甘伯伯說只要乖乖不亂動就給上船，但貓狗雞豬同處一條窄船上，能乖乖不動嗎？
　　與2-4歲小朋友共讀此書時，家長們會發現，小朋友對於下一頁要求上船的動物是什麼多少有點期待，而每次多來了一隻動物，動物們便會挪動位置以求船身的平衡，家長們不妨引導小孩注意動物們的位置變換，讓小朋友在觀察尋找的過程中得到莫大的樂趣，也可讓幼兒輕鬆記住每種動物的名稱。這本書特別適合與2至4歲的小朋友共讀。

Mr. Gumpy's Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpy's Outing, became the first artist ever to win England's Kate Greenaway Medal twice.
Mr. Gumpy lives by a river. One sunny day he decides to take a ride in his small boat.
It is such a perfect idea, for such a perfect summer day, that he soon has company: first the children, then the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the chickens, and still others until-- Mr. Gumpy's outing comes to an inevitable but not unhappy, conclusion.
"Come for a ride another day," says Mr. Gumpy at the book's end. And young readers will return again and again to this sprightly story with its clever, captivating illustrations that reflect the sunlit quality of a lazy summer afternoon.
An ALA Notable Children's Book A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book A Child Study Association Children's Book of the Year A Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year