a rabbit wondering if there can be a bunch of grapes tied to his tail.
a pelican pretending he didn’t hear anybody call him.a hippopotamus with all the lights turned out laughing at how hard it is to see the other people on the sofa.a pig seeing how many minutes it takes for a cold bath.a kangaroo jumping over a glass of orange juice so as not to spill it.So begins a litany of various and sundry oddball guesses including: Well that narrows it down, doesn’t it? 😀Įveryone decided it would be VERY EASY - all they had to do was guess EVERYTHING except those three things. a one year old lion blowing out the candle on his lovely birthday cake.With a big grin he offered them a clue: three things he was definitely NOT thinking about: The man seemed very pleased to have such a large audience, and he stopped eating just for a moment to tell them that if someone could guess what he was thinking about while he was eating his junket, he would give that person something nice. They all told their friends and more and more people kept coming and coming until every single person in the world was there, including a little boy in red socks riding his tricycle. People were surprised at how hungry this man was and they soon began to arrive from far and near just to watch him eat. Spoonful after spoonful, eating and eating and eating like there was no tomorrow. Seems there’s this man with a bushy red beard wearing red slippers eating a very large bowl of junket. Call it “inspired nonsense.” Yet I can see why it would appeal to kids and young-at-heart adults. Thank goodness New York Review Books re-issued Junket is Nice as part of their Children’s Collection (which features little known or forgotten titles), or I might never have learned about junket, which is described on the back cover as “a delicious custard and a lovely dessert.” 🙂 Junket is Nice is Kunhardt’s first book, published in 1933, seven years before Pat the Bunny. Yes, that Dorothy Kunhardt - of Pat the Bunnyfame. And now, from the department of strange children’s books you can’t help but love, here is Junket is Nice by Dorothy Kunhardt (New York Review Books, 2013).
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