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Illustrator Vincent X. Kirsch’s latest from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published last month to some great reviews! Junior Library Guild has selected The Hole Story of the Doughnut as one of their 12 elementary nonfiction selections for 2016!
Written by Pat Miller, The Hole Story of the Doughnut tells the true story of the invention of the beloved pastry by Hanson Gregory. In 1843, fourteen-year-
old Hanson Gregory left his family home in Rockport, Maine, and set sail as a cabin boy on the schooner Achorn, looking for high-stakes adventure on the high seas. Little did he know that a boatload of hungry sailors, coupled with his knack for creative problem-solving, would yield one of the world’s most prized and beloved pastries.
“Kirsch has admirably complemented the story with bright, cartoonlike illustrations that evoke the history and the humor of the tale.”–School Library Journal
Booklist called Doughnut an, “Entertaining…tasty bit of history.”
“Delicious!”—Kirkus
“In colorful scenes that evoke 1970s Schoolhouse Rock vignettes, Kirsch (Gingerbread for Liberty!) depict rows of wide-mouthed seafarers with entire doughnuts between their open jaws…”–Publishers Weekly
Available now!