The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
1918
The Magic Pudding: Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
1918
In the Australian bush, a tidy koala named Bunyip Bluegum abandons his orderly life for adventure and promptly falls in with the strangest companions a traveler could hope to meet: Bill Barnacle, a salt-soaked sailor, and Sam Sawnoff, a penguin of questionable origins. Together, they guard the most extraordinary dessert in existence, Albert, a Magic Pudding who reforms himself no matter how many times he's eaten, and who has plenty of opinions about the matter. Albert is not your typical enchantedtreat. He's grumpy, vain, and utterly unwilling to be consumed quietly. When pudding-thieves come prowling, the three friends must defend their impossible meal with cunning and courage. Interspersed with sea shanties, nonsense verses, and absurd banter, this 1918 Australian classic is less a gentle nursery tale than a rollicking comic fantasy about loyalty, appetite, and the particular chaos that ensues when dessert has a chip on its shoulder. It endures because it refuses to be saccharine, because its magic comes with attitude, and because friendship tastes better when there's something worth fighting for.
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“Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.””
— Norman Lindsay
“Don’t you know that nothin’ gives a man greater remorse than havin’ his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?””
— Norman Lindsay
“We’ll, if it ain’t enough to dumbfound a codfish.””
— Norman Lindsay
“Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.””
— Norman Lindsay
“Rumpus Bumpus,””
— Norman Lindsay
