Everybody knows the baby book Pat the Bunny. But that is not the only book Dorothy Kunhardt wrote. She published 50, including some for grownups.
When we were kids, we loved her book Junket Is Nice, about an old man with a red beard eating a rennet custard called junket while crowds of people try to guess what he is thinking.
We children used to eat a lot of junket, a dessert that is not around much anymore. It’s tricky to make because the milk has to be at a very precise temperature.
One day my friend and I got it in our heads to bury some treasure that we could dig up later, and we included in the cache Junket Is Nice. Needless to say, by the time we followed our map to “X marks the spot” several months later, Junket Is Nice was mildewed.
Which is why, when I saw it was reissued, I jumped to get a copy.
Read a bit more about Dorothy Kunhardt here.
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