Who Needs Donuts? - Mark Alan Stamaty

Who Needs Donuts? - Mark Alan Stamaty

Mark Alan Stamaty

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  • Pages · 40 pages, black-and-white illustrations throughout
  • Publication Date · 08/09/2026
  • Genre · Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)
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The cult classic kids book in all its resplendent absurdity and subversiveness. Sam's love of donuts takes him to the Big City where he makes friends with Mr. Bikferd, a world class collector of donuts. But when Mr. Bikferd falls in love with Pretzel Annie, the prophecy of an old woman comes true: Who needs donuts when you've got love? Mr. Bikferd bequeaths his donut collection to Sam, who uses it to save the old woman from drowning in a basement flooded with coffee. This is a reissue of Mark Alan Stamaty's masterpiece of the absurd, first published 50 years ago. With an illustration style that mixes a benign Hieronymus Bosch with an urban Where's Waldo?, Stamaty's off-the-wall humour is on target for little kids and big kids today.

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