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About the Book
Celebrating the 1973 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 more than 50 years ago. With an illustration style that mixes a benign Hieronymus Bosch with an urban Where’s Waldo?, Stamaty’s off-the-wall humor is on target for little kids and big kids today.
About the Author
Mark Alan Stamaty is a cartoonist, illustrator, and children’s author, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Newsweek, Time, Slate, and the New York Times Book Review. His comic strip “Washingtoon” ran regularly in the Village Voice, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and over 40 newspapers between 1981 and 1994. He’s also the illustrator of the classic children’s book Yellow Yellow, written by Frank Asch, and published with Drawn & Quarterly in 2019. Mark lives in New Jersey with his wife Lynn.
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