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  • Published: 15 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590176283
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $32.99

Junket Is Nice



An old man with a very red beard eats pudding out of a big red bowl. Everybody wants to know what he is thinking about, but nobody can guess. Could he be thinking about junket?

WHAT IS JUNKET?

Junket is a delicious custard and a lovely dessert.

But why is the old man with a red beard and red slippers eating such an enormous bowl of junket, and what could he possibly be thinking about while he feasts?

That’s a good question! And one that the old man poses to the crowds and crowds of people that gather to watch him. In fact, almost everyone in the whole world wants to know the answer to this riddle.

And only one little boy has the answer.

This ingenious book of inspired nonsense was the very first from Dorothy Kunhardt, whose Pat the Bunny has delighted generations of young children.

  • Published: 15 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590176283
  • Imprint: NY Review Childrens
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Junket Is Nice

"A rare book of irresistible nonsense . . ." - The New York Times

". . . noble nonsense that, like Lear's, could be at once ridiculous and poignant." - Barbara Bader, American Picture Books
"A nonsense picture book with a guessing element in it and the repetition children love." - Kirkus Reviews

"For Dorothy Kunhardt, a children's book was nothing more or less than a way to talk to children. And if along the way the pages of the book had to float in a bath, had to squeak, had to bounce, had to light up, had to change color, had to feel furry or be in the shape of a snake or an elephant for feeling under the covers, if the book had to have a lock on it, a hole through it, a smell all its own, even if the book had to be eaten, that was O.K.--because that was all part of the delight." - Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., The New York Times