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Title: Pudding Is Nice by Dorothy Kunhardt, Ray Brock ISBN: 0912846178 Publisher: Bookstore Pr Pub. Date: June, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: All-Time Favorite --- clever, witty, imaginative
Comment: My family grew up reading our mother's tattered original hardcover version of JUNKET IS NICE. It remains my all-time favorite.

Dorothy Kunhardt is probably best remembered for PAT THE BUNNY, the first touch and feel book. But JUNKET (reprinted as PUDDING for trademark reasons, we think) is nothing like it at all -- this is very much a book about words and imagination, not about touch and feel.

All the people in the world gather ("first all the people who could run very fast and their friends came") to watch an old man with a big red beard and red slippers eating Junket out of a big red bowl, and guessing what he might be thinking about as he's eating and eating his Junket.

"'To make it easy, I will tell you three things I am NOT thinking about, and I really and truly am not.

"'I am NOT thinking about...

"A rabbit wondering if there could be a bunch of grapes tied to his tail." [... and so forth ]

"'Well, that makes it very easy,' said the people. 'We will just guess everything EXCEPT a rabbit wondering if there could be a bunch of grapes tied to his tail.' [...and so forth]

And away they go. The fun of the book is in the guessing, and children have a great time coming up with additional guesees, although they'd be hard-pressed to top ideas such as,

"THEN SOMEONE GUESSED, a hippopotamus with all the lights turned out, laughing at how hard it is to see the other people on the sofa.

"'WRONG,' said the old man, and he went on eating his junket."

If you find this book, buy a bunch of them -- you'll want to give them as gifts.

Rating: 5
Summary: But Rennet Dessert Is Nicer
Comment: I still have my childhood copy, copyright-1947, and read it to my 5yr old boy & twin 4yr old girls. I still find it delightful & so do my kids. I recommend it strongly for its warmth & absurd humor. I'm going to buy two more copies. One for me-to see if they changed anything other than the title (I hope not) & one for my 5yr olds kindergarter teacher.

Rating: 5
Summary: Mighty, mighty pudding.
Comment: This book does a masterful job of implying many of the more important things in life: honor, revenge, pudding. The relationship between man and boy as they bond over pudding and learn much of the ways of life is indeed touching.