Who Needs Donuts?

by Mark Alan Stamaty

Book Overview

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 homeless 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 homeless woman from drowning in a basement flooded with coffee. This is a reissue of Mark Alan Stamaty's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803795351
• ISBN13: 9780803795358
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The best kid book ever!

I love the illustrations in this book. My son is obsessed with this book.

Everbody Needs Who Needs Donuts

As children, this book kept me and my brother occupied for hours -- day after day, trying to make sense of the bizare, witty, and highly detailed drawings. We both adored the extremely funny tone that never talked down to us, the offbeat storytelling, and the unusual characters that rarely make it into children's books! This book will likely become an instant favorite with your family -- I'm currently buying copies to give to some of my closest adult friends! Regardless of age, anyone with a sense of humor and love of the unusual will be most grateful for this wonderful book!

A masterpiece!!!

I started reading "Who Needs Donuts" in 1974, and have been making steady progress on it ever since. Someday, I hope to finish it. But that is unlikely, for this poignant story is filled with such intricate humorous detail, it is almost impossible to tell if you've completed it! This is a timeless masterpiece for readers of all ages, that until the reissue was available only to the lucky few who managed to get a copy in the 70s. Now that its back, everyone can and should know "Who Needs Donuts".

Who Needs Donuts?

One point I want to make is ... What can we do to have the publisher reprint? Because obviously the book is impossible to find. This is a book that I distinctly remember from all the other books I read in my life. I know I am not the only one that feels this way. If you agree, log on and express your opinion.

Who Needs Donuts? WE DO!!!

The book is wonderfully detailed and crazy! It will keep you entertained for hours. We would love to find a copy of it if we could. We haven't seen it since college. Every time you look at it, you find something new!

One of the greatest children's books of all time!

With any justice, Stamaty would be a household name with Sendak and Scarry in children's publishing. This book had a major effect on me as a child. Luckily for me, my school library had one tattered, well-read copy. I thought that I had the only remaining copy which I obtained a few years ago after a nationwide search. I even called Mr. Stamaty and he said he didn't have a copy (but maybe his mother did - he'd check.). Unbelievably detailed (after hundreds of readings I STILL find new things) and twistedly funny pen-and-ink drawings, bizarre characters, a profound moral message, and doughnuts, doughnuts, doughnuts! I'm writing this with the hope that one day it will be re-released so that more people could enjoy this book and appreciate Mr. Stamaty's obsessive genius. I still cannot understand why this book was a financial flop and so overlooked by critics when it was released (too weird?). Perhaps its time has come.