Who Needs Donuts?

Name: Who Needs Donuts?
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ISBN: 9781770469150

Mark Alan Stamaty

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English

Drawn and Quarterly
08 September 2026

Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

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.

By: Mark Alan Stamaty
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 248mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781770469150
ISBN 10: 177046915X
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 08 September 2026
Recommended Age: From 3 to 5 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Mark Alan Stamaty is a cartoonist, illustrator and children s author living in NYC.

Reviews for Who Needs Donuts?

Brilliant and surreal. Dwight Garner, The New York Times. The hallucinogenic pen-and-ink masterpiece Catherine Hong, The New York Times. A charming and hilarious book for kids. Jesse Thorn, Bullseye