Magic Pudding - Hardcover

Lindsay, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0207183554 ISBN 13: 9780207183553

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited, 1998

Synopsis

Sam Sawnoff, Bunyip Bluegum and Bill Barnacle all try to make a meal of the unusual, vocal magic pudding. But a secret like a magic pudding is hard to keep. The envious eyes of the professional pudding thieves are on the trio and their prize.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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, from the introduction

About the Author:

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was born in Victoria, Australia, the fifth of ten children, several of whom grew up to be artists. At age seventeen, he left home and traveled to Melbourne, where he found work as an illustrator. Famously prolific in many mediums, Lindsay produced countless oil paintings, drawings, etchings, and watercolors, as well as eleven novels. He was famous, too, for the countless controversies he happily provoked throughout his long life. As his granddaughter later explained: “He fought the wowsers, he fought the hypocrites, the people that were going to stop and stifle creative freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of thought.”
        Norman Lindsay’s home is now a museum of his works run by Australia’s National Trust. After entertaining generations of young Australians, The Magic Pudding is recognized as a classic of children’s literature, and in 2000 a sculpture of Bunyip Bluegum and friends (including the Puddin’ itself) was unveiled as the centerpiece of the children’s garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.

Philip Pullman is the author of the trilogy His Dark Materials, the third book of which, The Amber Spyglass, was the first children’s book to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in the UK. He spent part of his childhood in Australia, where he first encountered The Magic Pudding. He now lives and works in Oxford, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0207183554
• ISBN 13: 9780207183553
• Binding: Hardcover