The Magic Pudding: The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum

by NormanLindsay (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.27

  Never out of print since 1918, this new edition will whet the appetite of a whole new generation of 'puddin' fanciers'. Believing wholeheartedly that children preferred food to fairies, Norman Lindsay concocted a recipe for success that has lingered for ninety years. Here are the adventures of Sam Sawnoff, Barnacle Bill and Albert, the cut-and-come again pudding, who requires 'politeness and constant eatin'.' this beautifully designed new edition of a perennial favourite also includes a section, 'From the Publisher's Archives' containing a fascinating collection of correspondence between Norman Lindsay and his publishers, Angus & Robertson. the letters have come from the A & R Archives held in the Mitchell Library and were selected with the assistance of Lindsay's granddaughter, Helen Glad, who also wrote a short biography of him especially for this book. Ages 8+

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.27

  The adventure of those splendid fellows Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff, the penguin bold, and of course their amazing, everlasting, and very cantankerous puddin A very unusual pudding it is indeed. Whistle three times, turn it round and it's steak-and-kidney if that's what you fancy, or hot jam rolls, or delicious apple dumpling. Its manners are appalling, but it tastes so good! And it loves, just loves, to be eaten: Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle, Never leave the table till your full up to the muzzle it rudely urges the Noble Order of Puddin 97 Owners, and of course the three members are delighted to oblige. But a secret like a magic pudding is hard to keep, and envious eyes of professional puddin 97thieves are on the brave trio and their prize. The puddin 97thieves are cunning and master of disguise, but no match in the end for the even greater ingenuity of righteous puddin 97owners. Ages 8+

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  Hardcover
  1976

  $24.11