In addition to illustrating Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Jonathan Cape, 1964), he created Mr Gumpy’s Outing (Jonathan Cape, 1970), which was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, The Shopping Basket (Random House, 1980) and Granpa (Random House, 1984), which won the Kurt Maschler Award and illustrated The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham (Penguin/Puffin, 1983), among many other much-loved books. He died on this day in 1964, two months before Chitty Chitty Bang. Burningham wrote and illustrated over 60 books for children which have been translated and distributed all over the world. James Bond creator Ian Fleming didnt live to see publication of his only childrens book. Many illustration commissions followed, including iconic posters for London Transport, before the publication of his first book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers (Jonathan Cape, 1963), which won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration and heralded the beginning of an extraordinary career. He studied illustration and graphic design at the Central School of Art and graduated with distinction in 1959.
John Burningham was born in Farnham, Surrey, in 1936.
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