the Wry Baby Blog

You can keep your pleading, drivers licence-less, hot dog-less, puppy-less, sleep deprived pigeons. The funnest kids book out there (and I mean WAY out there) is Who Needs Donuts by Mark Alan Stamaty.

The 1973 story of a youth who leaves home to pursue his love of donut collecting to find an older seedier hippie version of his future self only to lose his new found mentor to love. And then he rescues a homeless woman living in a coffee factory…look, the plot works when coupled with the extra detailed ink doodles that only a madman can throw together. Trains coming out of a brownstones upper floor windows. Abe Lincoln with donuts on his head…okay, you’ll just have to either take our word for it and spring for the pretty hardcover rerelease (just $11.53 at Amazon) or go to randsinrepose to read a great 2003 email interview with Mr. Stamaty (coincides with the rerelease of his book).

OMG. Keep saying this when you read this book – “Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blade of grass. Every blad of grass.”