Op Plea - The Magic Pudding
Philip Pullman laments the out-of-printness of
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay first published by Angus and Robertson in 1918
Norman Lindsay had a robust idea of children’s literary taste. Given a choice between fairies and food, he believed, they’d go for food every time; fighting and eating were what stories should be about. The result of this conviction is The Magic Pudding.
Quite simply, it’s the funniest children’s book ever written. It concerns the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, ‘a very well-bred young fellow, able to converse on a great variety of subjects, having read all the best Australian poets’, who sets out to see the world and meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff, the penguin bold, the owners of the Puddin’.
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