Norman Lindsay was born in 1879 in Victoria, Australia, and remains one of Australia's most famous artists. He wrote eleven books, including Curate in Bohemia (1913), The Cautious Amorist (1934), Cousin from Fiji (1945) and the children's book The Flyaway Highway (1936). He died in 1969. Philip Pullman was born in in 1946 in Norwich, England and is the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels.
"I think it's the funniest children's book ever written. One of the
great strengths of the book is its illustration, by Lindsay
himself. He was best known as a visual artist, producing thousands
of paintings, etchings, drawings, and sculptures, but his pictures
for The Magic Pudding are his best work, in my view. They are so
vigorous and absurd, so strongly characterized and brilliantly
detailed, that my eye delights in them still."-- Philip Pullman on
his favorite children's book, Publishers Weekly, December 2015 "The
Magic Pudding . .. is one of my all-time favourite children's books
- an unmissable read for anyone who has not already encountered it
... The New York Review's Children's collection is full of such
choice reprints that I would gladly have every one of their
publications on my shelves." --Kate Kellaway, The Guardian (UK) "A
robust fantasy, The Magic Pudding was first published in 1918 but
shows few signs of its age. It's part of a handsome, new collection
of reprints, published by The New York Review of Books, aimed at
rescuing neglected children's classics from 'the dustbins of
history'. There's no dust on Lindsay's quirky tale about the
adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, an irrepressible, polite young koala.
He meets various eccentric characters who bust into song and rhyme.
In the introduction to the new edition, Philip Pullman, author of
The Amber Spyglass, calls Lindsay's work 'the funniest children's
book ever written...You can feel Lindsay carried away on the wings
of his own energy'."
-- USA Today, "Holiday Books" "Philip Pullman's favourite book ...
satirical, wise and brilliantly illustrated by Lindsay" --The
Sunday Times (UK) "The illustrations are great fun, the characters
burst into comic verse at the drop of a hat, and it's hard to
resist."
-- The Horn Book "The book is full of songs that pitch along like
boats on a rough sea. The tremendous black and white drawings are
full of ne'er do well character...It is an outrage that it is not
on every English family's menu."
-- The Observer
"I think it s the funniest children s book ever written. One of the
great strengths of the book is its illustration, by Lindsay
himself. He was best known as a visual artist, producing thousands
of paintings, etchings, drawings, and sculptures, but his pictures
forThe Magic Puddingare his best work, in my view. They are so
vigorous and absurd, so strongly characterized and brilliantly
detailed, that my eye delights in them still. Philip Pullman on his
favorite children s book, Publishers Weekly, December 2015
The Magic Pudding . .. is one of my all-time favourite children s
books an unmissable read for anyone who has not already encountered
it The New York Review s Children s collection is full of such
choice reprints that I would gladly have every one of their
publications on my shelves. Kate Kellaway, The Guardian (UK)
"A robust fantasy, The Magic Pudding was first published in 1918
but shows few signs of its age. It s part of a handsome, new
collection of reprints, published by The New York Review of Books,
aimed at rescuing neglected children s classics from 'the dustbins
of history'. There s no dust on Lindsay s quirky tale about the
adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, an irrepressible, polite young koala.
He meets various eccentric characters who bust into song and rhyme.
In the introduction to the new edition, Philip Pullman, author of
The Amber Spyglass, calls Lindsay s work 'the funniest children s
book ever written You can feel Lindsay carried away on the wings of
his own energy'.
USA Today, Holiday Books
Philip Pullman s favourite book satirical, wise and brilliantly
illustrated by Lindsay The Sunday Times (UK)
"The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic
verse at the drop of a hat, and it s hard to resist."
The Horn Book
"The book is full of songs that pitch along like boats on a rough
sea. The tremendous black and white drawings are full of ne er do
well character It is an outrage that it is not on every English
family s menu."
The Observer"
"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 as much as I ever did."
Philip Pullman, from the introduction
"A robust fantasy, The Magic Pudding was first published in 1918
but shows few signs of its age. It s part of a handsome, new
collection of reprints, published by The New York Review of Books,
aimed at rescuing neglected children s classics from 'the dustbins
of history'. There s no dust on Lindsay s quirky tale about the
adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, an irrepressible, polite young koala.
He meets various eccentric characters who bust into song and rhyme.
In the introduction to the new edition, Philip Pullman, author of
"The Amber Spyglass," calls Lindsay s work 'the funniest children s
book ever written You can feel Lindsay carried away on the wings of
his own energy'.
"USA Today," Holiday Books
"The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic
verse at the drop of a hat, and it s hard to resist."
"The Horn Book"
"The book is full of songs that pitch along like boats on a rough
sea. The tremendous black and white drawings are full of ne er do
well character It is an outrage that it is not on every English
family s menu."
"The Observer""
"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 as much as I ever did."
-- Philip Pullman, from the introduction
"A robust fantasy, The Magic Pudding was first published in 1918
but shows few signs of its age. It's part of a handsome, new
collection of reprints, published by The New York Review of Books,
aimed at rescuing neglected children's classics from 'the dustbins
of history'. There's no dust on Lindsay's quirky tale about the
adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, an irrepressible, polite young koala.
He meets various eccentric characters who bust into song and rhyme.
In the introduction to the new edition, Philip Pullman, author of
"The Amber Spyglass," calls Lindsay's work 'the funniest children's
book ever written...You can feel Lindsay carried away on the wings
of his own energy'."
-- "USA Today," "Holiday Books"
"The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic
verse at the drop of a hat, and it's hard to resist."
-- "The Horn Book"
"The book is full of songs that pitch along like boats on a rough
sea. The tremendous black and white drawings are full of ne'er do
well character...It is an outrage that it is not on every English
family's menu."
-- "The Observer"
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