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The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay's ARTwork! 1974 HARDc

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ELWOOD, , Melbourne Vic, Australia
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300593941158
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Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitions- opens in a new window or tab ... Read moreabout the condition
Format: Hardcover
Language: English Age Level: Ages 4 - 8
Printing Year: 1974 Subject: Classics

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The   Magic   Pudding

Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff

 By  Norman Lindsay

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Copyright: ©   Janet Glad  1970

Publisher: Angus & Robertson Publishers, Australia

Published: 1974

ISBN:  0207943923

Binding: LARGER HARDcover Measures  19cm  BY  26cms   and  171 UNmarked spotless pages

Book Condition: Looks carefully read (if at all!) Only slight blemish ~ as New copy from 35+ years ago! 

Edition: 1st Edition: Later impression

Divine artwork!!!

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CUTE  Huh ????  . . . . . 

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My PHOTOS/ slideshow is of the ACTUAL copy I'm selling  AND FORMS PART OF MY DESCRIPTION  

Synopsis:

The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic.

But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met.

So Bunyip Bluegum (the koala bear) finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff (the penguin bold) as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as one of the craziest books ever written for young readers.

The Magic Pudding has been a source of wonder and amusement for nearly 90 years: no matter how much the reader gets out of the story, there is, as with the Pudding itself, always something left.

But to its author, artist and writer, Norman Lindsay (1879–1969), the book was a ‘little bundle of piffle’. Written as a distraction from the horrors of World War 1 and his brother’s death on the Somme, he thought it held him back as a serious writer.

The story arose out a professional disagreement Lindsay had with fellow writer, Bertram Stevens, who thought that fairies were the most popular subject for a children’s story. Lindsay believed it was food. The pudding won.

The original artwork is derived from 102 drawings Lindsay made for the book in pencil, ink and watercolour.

The first edition was a limited-edition art book, costing the relatively high sum of £110. Lindsay opposed the cost: ‘I wouldn’t have minded if it had come out as a kids’ book, to be sold at a price that would allow the kid to tear it up with a clear conscience’.

About the Author:

Norman Lindsay (1879-1970) wrote The Magic Pudding to settle an argument with a friend who claimed that children liked to read about fairies. Lindsay argued instead that they liked to read about food. The author of several novels, Lindsay was also a caricaturist, sculptor, painter, and pen-and-ink artist renowned in Australia and beyond.

Reviews:

"This is the funniest children’s book ever written. I’ve been laughing at it for fifty years, and when I read it again this morning, I laughed just as much as I ever did. There’s no point in trying to explain why it’s funny. If there’s anyone so bereft of humour that they can read these words and look at these pictures without laughing, then heaven help them, because they’re beyond the reach of advice, instruction or despair."                                                                                               Philip Pullman

"The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic verse at the drop of a hat...hard to resist."

Bunyip Bluegum the Koala leaves home because he can't stand the sight of his uncle's whiskers in the soup any more. He meets Barnacle Bill the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin, who own a remarkable pudding. Every time you cut a slice from the pudding, another one grows in its place, you can eat as much as you like, the pudding lasts forever. What's more, you can change the pudding to any kind you like, it can be steak and kidney or plum duff or jam roly poly. The pudding is apt to get discontented and starts complaining if it isn't eaten enough. Such a desirable pudding is naturally at constant risk from pudding thieves, and the three friends have their work cut out trying to outwit the sneaky Possum and Wombat who are always trying to steal it. This is a very funny story with lots of action and a great many fights, it should appeal to anyone who likes humorous fantasy.   Amazon  reader

A MARVELOUS  LARGE HARDCOVER   COPY OF THIS AUSTRALIAN  CLASSIC FICTION........... 

NO marks of any kind on reading pages. No dogears. A nearest to  MINT copy!

How  cute’s   this ??? Norman Lindsay's Artwork
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