Jonathan Cape are a fabulous and eclectic publisher, even now as part of Random House, bringing us everything from James Bond to Tamara Drew to Alice in Sunderland to the works of J G Ballard and a multitude of other great books.  The one I am currently most pleased about is their volume on illustrator and writer John Burningham.

Mr Gumpy on the cover, bearing a strong resemblance to Mr Burningham

I first came across Burningham in a Walker books Children's anthology.  The story, Mr Gumpy's (no...
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