The Bagel Who Wanted Everything by Alan Silberberg - ISBN: 9780593693131
Hardcover
A plain bagel’s quest to become everything and fill his hole.

The Bagel Who Wanted Everything

$28.04

  • Hardcover

    32 pages

  • Release Date

    21 October 2025

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Summary

The Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast series meets The Food Group books in this tale of a plain bagel who dreams of being more!

Hey. I’m a bagel who is just one thing—PLAIN. The other bagels? They’re all just one thing, too. Garlic. Salt. Onion—you get the idea. BORING!

Being plain makes me feel like I have this big hole, right here in my gut. Because in a world full of so many things, I want to be … EVERYTHING!

Now I just have to figure out what that is …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780593693131
ISBN-10:0593693132
Author:Alan Silberberg
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:32
Release Date:21 October 2025
Weight:340g
Dimensions:236mm x 238mm x 9mm
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Critics Review

Praise for The Bagel Who Wanted Everything

“With charm and a lesson of self-empowerment, this bagel book has lox to recommend it.”–Kirkus Reviews

“Silberberg’s wacky food characters, rendered in bold, eye-catching digital illustrations, bring silliness to a message (beyond “you can be anything”–you can be “everything”!) that’s never stale.”–The Horn Book

About The Author

Alan Silberberg

Alan Silberberg is an award-winning author, cartoonist, and children’s TV creator who has worked with Nickelodeon and Disney. Alan created the Jewish food alphabet book P Is for Pastrami, as well as the trilogy of holiday books Meet the Latkes, Meet the Matzah, and Meet the Hamantaschen. Alan lives in Montreal, where the bagels are the best!

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