Hey hey!
Did I tell you I have a book coming out? I have a book coming out. Look! ~~~
It’s my DONUTS FOR EVERYBODY art book, a 144 page celebration of children’s book illustration, community, goodwill, and, of course, DONUTS. It’s at the printer’s AS I TYPE and I’m looking forward to releasing the book in a few short weeks.
Before the book goes live, though, I thought it’d be fun to celebrate the project’s completion with a series of posts dedicated to the entire DONUTS FOR EVERYBODY project. Let’s start with that old chestnut, guess the number of jellybeans in the jar.
Except in this case it’s guess how many donuts I managed to cram into my 144 page book. I can give you some information. There’s about a million fewer than you’ll find in WHO NEEDS DONUTS? by Mark Alan Stamaty.
And maybe a thousand fewer than you’ll find in THE DONUT CHEF by Bob Staake.
Need some more clues? Well, those of you who followed the project will remember I did four donuts days over on Twitter with a dozen and a half donuts per day. There was the Twelve Days of Donuts in December, plus the 144 donuts I made on a livestream back in January.
Some pages hold more than one donut, though. The Strega Nona page, for example, holds six dozen.
Add to this the fact that I can get carried away in creative projects and the knowledge that I had an absolute blast putting this book together.
I think this should get you in the ballpark. Make a guess in the comments below! Closest without going over gets a virtual donut and my warmest regards.
Yours as always,
Jerrold
I was going to guess 666 because you’ve got a devilish sense of humor….but I decided to guess 520 because, well, we live in California.
552
303 is feeling like the right answer
I like where Madeline’s head is at, 3 is my favorite number! I’m going to go with 333!
You created just the right amount of donuts to keep everyone delightfully entertained and distracted, during a time that we all needed some human goodness.
210. I hope.
I’m going to say…you went a little dounut crazy and made 500?! Can’t wait to see them all!!
365!
Time to make that donut a day calendar!
I think Jerrold is the kind of guy who likes magic numbers.
333.
This is very much like me but I might also worry that that number would be halfway to hell. I went higher.
537 is my guess!
My morning walk was jam-filled with thoughts of donuts. I wondered. What Would Jerrold do?
How many pages? How many spreads?
I thought about doing the exponential value of 32 pages, but that would have given you 4294967296 donuts, waaaaay too many donuts to draw on deadline and a lot of dough to manufacture!
Then I thought that maybe you did it the old-fashioned way.
Did you do the sum of n consecutive numbers?
My official answer is 528!
403 🤞
Hmm…144 pages, so maybe 441 donuts! Yup that’s my guess. 😉
Do the cover count and endpapers count as well as the donut holes from Holes on 12 Days of Donuts?
Cover and endpapers count BUT, if the HOLES donut made it in, which it didn’t, it would count as one donut (the giant desert being the donut). I opted to pick just one donut from that day. I just couldn’t figure out a way to have all four look good on a page, I didn’t want to have multiple pages and the one I chose looked REALLY good enlarged. Plus, it’s the most appropriate of all four donuts.
My guess is 680 donuts. No rhyme or reason for my guess. Just seems like a good number.
I’m glad to see someone dipping into the really big numbers! Thank you, Tunisia. 🙂
I asked my dogs, who have been known to pilfer donuts in the past. Alas, they did not answer, so I’m going with 789 (7 ate 9) bc you’re Jerrold!
7,777.
If some have bites in them, maybe 916
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I’m feeling 371! Can’t wait to see them all🥳