A bohemian whose work was often censored, Norman Lindsay’s book of delightfully nasty characters and superb illustrations became a beloved children’s classic
“Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle/Never leave the table till you’re full up to the muzzle.” This sage advice comes, of course, from Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding, a classic children’s book celebrating its centenary this year.
Famously, the book emerged from a dispute about what attracted children to reading. His friend Bertram Stevens claimed kids loved fairies; Lindsay insisted they craved food. Publisher Angus and Robertson glossed the volume that resulted as detailing the “Walks, Talks, Travels, Exploits, Fights, Stratagems and Sing-songs of Bill Barnacle (a Sailor), Sam Sawnoff (a Penguin) and Bunyip Bluegum (a Native Bear), told in prose and verse … and illustrated in 100 pictures.”
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