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Arnie, the Doughnut

by Laurie Keller

A doughnut with a say in his own future

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    2004 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

    Named a 2004 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A doughnut with a say in his own future

At a bakery, Arnie watches other doughnuts leave with customers and wonders who will choose him. Though he looks like an ordinary sprinkled doughnut, Arnie has plenty to say—and the story turns that contrast into a playful premise about choice and self-determination. The question of whether he can affect his own future gives the bakery setting a clear narrative focus, while the book’s description also places friendship among its central concerns.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 interested in imaginative stories about food.
  • Young readers who enjoy talking-object characters and stories about friendship and making choices.

Themes

FriendshipChoice and agencyFood and imagination

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Book overview

A deliciously imaginative story about friendship--from Laurie Keller, the author / illustrator of The Scrambled States of America.

Arnie was fascinated as he watched the customers stream into the bakery. One by one, doughnuts were chosen, placed in paper bags, and whisked away with their new owners. Some went by the dozen in giant boxes.
"Good-bye!" Arnie yelled to each doughnut. "Have a good trip!"
"This is so exciting!" Arnie beamed. "I wonder who will choose ME?"

At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut--round, cakey, with a hole in the middle, iced and sprinkled. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right?

WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts--or at least have a hand in his own future? Well, you'll just have to read this funny story and find out for yourself. This title has Common Core connections

Arnie, the Doughnut is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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