Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers is a children's picture book written and illustrated by John Burningham and published by Jonathan Cape in 1963. ^[1] It features a goose born without feathers, whose mother knits a jersey that helps in some ways.^[1]

Borka was Burningham's first published book as an author or illustrator.^{[citation needed]} For it he won the 1963 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.^[1] For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel of experts named it one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.^[2]

Random House published the U.S. edition in February 1964 (44 pages; ISBN 0224064940).

According to Kirkus Reviews, Borka is an ugly duckling who "does not undergo a transformation; she is as bald as a goose as she was when a gosling. ... The freely stylized illustrations in bold lines and appropriate, vivid colors are many and strong."^[3]

• "The Ugly Duckling"

• Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• "Formats and editions of Borka" at WorldCat
• "Flights of fancy: It's 40 years since Borka ...", The Guardian 7 March 2003
• "John Burningham – a life in pictures", a 13-picture gallery, The Guardian 21 March 2011 — includes two pages from Borka

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