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The Magic Pudding (New York Review Children's Collection) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Norman Lindsay, Philip Pullman
Publisher: NYR Children's Collection
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 143402
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1590171012
EAN: 9781590171011
ASIN: 1590171012
Publication Date: June 30, 2004
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Condition: Brand new hardcover no dustjacket as issued, glossy pictorial cover with cloth spine as pictured, right from the printer's carton, mailed same or next business day in a box.
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The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling. But it's also alive. It walks, it talks, and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So discovers koala Bunyip Bluegum when he joins a sailor and a penguin as members of 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 with Alice in Wonderland as one of the craziest books ever written for young readers.
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 Inspired, yes...but HARD to read aloud! February 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Honestly, I'm no read-aloud wimp! And my kids are usually up for anything. They giggled like mad at the pompous puns of Mr. H.M. Wogglebug T.E. in the Oz books, and urged on my faux-Yorkshire accent in the Secret Garden. The century-old Australian slang and endless sea shanties of the Magic Pudding, though, just about did us in. It really is a magnificent flight of fancy, but there were just too many incomprehensible sentences to paraphrase and longggg songs to make up tunes for. Save this for when you're at your most daring and energetic, read-aloud parents!
 Australian SF Reader August 1, 2007
Big tough talking penguins and talking never ending desserts, what more could you want? Ok, that, but this is a kids book, and one you should get if you have some (kids, that is, not talking penguins and puddings). There are the good guys, and there are the bad guys. Both are hungry, but the bad guys want to put out tasty pudding friend to nefarious ends, while the good guys just want enough dessert. Needless to say, the pudding is cantankerous.
The Australian Lewis Carroll? September 27, 2004
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
This book is part of the wonderful new series of republished children's books from the New York Review of Books. Over 80 years old, "The Magic Pudding" describes the adventures of a koala bear, named Bunyip Bluegum - the kind of koala who wears a high collar and spats - who falls in with a crazy cowboy sort of fellow named Bill Barnacle and a penguin named Sam Sawnoff.
Bill and Sam are possessed of a magic pudding (named Albert, if you can believe this), who regenerates every time you take a bite of him and changes into whatever flavor you like. Albert the pudding is much coveted by two evil villains who are constantly tricking our Heroes into giving up the Pudding, whereupon they must go and re-re-re-rescue it.
The characters and style are very reminiscent of "Alice in Wonderland," with Bunyip seeming a little White-rabbitish to me, and Bill and Sam sort of Mad Hatter and Dormouse-y. The effect is somewhere in between "Alice" and an old Loony Tunes in which Bugs Bunny constantly bewilders Elmer Fudd.
The whole narrative is punctuated with many whimsical song lyrics, like the poetry in Carroll's book. The lyrics make it a great read-aloud for the younger set, although older kids might be a bit puzzled by its style. However, everyone will be charmed by the Pudding himself and want one of their very own.
Like Roald Dahl's books? You'll love The Magic Pudding. May 19, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The Magic Pudding is a fun-and-nonsense tale that has become my nine-year-old son's favorite book. It deserves to be published in the US so that American children can enjoy what has become a classic in Australian children's literature. If you enjoy Roald Dahl's books, "The Phantom Tollbooth," and "Alice in Wonderland" you'll enjoy this.
A magically funny story December 23, 2003
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
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