291J: Boy befriends man with a donut cart (Solved)

I read this book in maybe 1978. Black and white Illustrations with hidden objects throughout, like a giraffe under a man’s hat, etc. A boy runs away from home and befriends a man who sells donuts from a cart on the street. The donut salesman falls in love with a woman who has a pretzel cart and this makes the runaway boy jealous. Then a bull escapes from a pet store and runs into a giant tank of coffee, which the boy is sure to drown in as he gets trapped in a basement filling with coffee. The donut salesman saves the boy by dumping all his donuts in the coffee. The boys goes home at the end.

2 thoughts on “291J: Boy befriends man with a donut cart (Solved)

  1. Susan Reagel

    This is the amazing “Who needs donuts” by Mark Alan Stamaty. The illustrations are completely amazing!

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  2. Betsy

    Definitely Who Needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty. It used to be really hard to find, but it was reissued about 15 years ago.

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