Magic Pudding turns 90!
September 12th 2008 04:26
The Magic Pudding celebrates its 90th anniversary!
This is a celebration not to be missed
‘Pudding Day’ organised to celebrate Magic Pudding’s 90th birthday at the Norman Lindsay Gallery. As part of the celebration, the 90th anniversary edition will be officially launched on Pudding Day, Sunday 12 October, at the Norman Lindsay Gallery at Springwood, Blue Mountains (the former home of the artist and writer).
From 10 am to 4 pm, children and adults can enjoy a day of music, minstrels and the antics of puddin’ thieves. There will be costume and colouring/drawing competitions as well as a large ‘seaside’ board where children can put their faces to pudding owners, thieves and Albert, to be photographed.
In addition, the Norman Lindsay Gallery will hold a special exhibition during October called Pudding Owners, Pudding Thieves and Friends: The Story of The Magic Pudding. The exhibition will feature reproductions of Lindsay’s animals from the early 20th century. Visitors will also be able to view various foreign language editions, puppets, posters and other pudding ephemera.
The Magic Pudding retails for $40 at the gallery and other bookshops. Gallery visitors will also be able to purchase mugs, egg cups and tea towels created especially for the 90th anniversary and featuring illustrations from the book.
Cost for the day out is $6 for children and $10 for adults. The Norman Lindsay Gallery, a National Trust property, is located at 14 Norman Lindsay Crescent, Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains. Tel: (02) 4751 1067.
About The Magic Pudding:
Believing that children preferred food to fairies, Norman Lindsay cooked up a recipe for success that has lingered for 90 years. Never out of print since 1918, The Magic Pudding is a feast of funny adventures and loveable characters: Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle, Sam Sawnoff, and Albert, the pudding.
Discovered in mysterious circumstances, Albert is no ordinary pudding. No matter how much you eat, he never shows a mark. Whistle twice, turn the basin around, and he changes from steak and kidney to hot jam roll or apple dumpling in the wink of an eye! The pudding is cranky, and his manners are appalling, but he tastes delicious and loves to be eaten. And he’s about to get his owners into all sorts of trouble…
The new edition of this timeless Australian classic has been carefully and beautifully designed. The original artwork has been rescanned to show the illustrations in all their exquisite detail. This edition also contains early reviews of The Magic Pudding, plus a fascinating collection of correspondence between Norman Lindsay and his publishers, Angus & Robertson, from the A & R Archives held in the Mitchell Library. The letters were selected with the assistance of Lindsay’s granddaughter, Helen Glad, who has written a short biography of Lindsay, complete with photographs, especially for this book.
About Norman Lindsay:
Norman Lindsay is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest and most influential artists, producing a vast body of work in different media. In addition to his children’s classic, The Magic Pudding, Lindsay is most famous for his controversial paintings and etchings of nudes.
This is a celebration not to be missed
‘Pudding Day’ organised to celebrate Magic Pudding’s 90th birthday at the Norman Lindsay Gallery. As part of the celebration, the 90th anniversary edition will be officially launched on Pudding Day, Sunday 12 October, at the Norman Lindsay Gallery at Springwood, Blue Mountains (the former home of the artist and writer).
From 10 am to 4 pm, children and adults can enjoy a day of music, minstrels and the antics of puddin’ thieves. There will be costume and colouring/drawing competitions as well as a large ‘seaside’ board where children can put their faces to pudding owners, thieves and Albert, to be photographed.
In addition, the Norman Lindsay Gallery will hold a special exhibition during October called Pudding Owners, Pudding Thieves and Friends: The Story of The Magic Pudding. The exhibition will feature reproductions of Lindsay’s animals from the early 20th century. Visitors will also be able to view various foreign language editions, puppets, posters and other pudding ephemera.
The Magic Pudding is not only a beloved children’s book, it has truly become part of the Australian vernacular with everything from the economy to Sydney real estate being described as a magic pudding. Norman would have been pleased knowing that he baked an artistic pudding big enough for everyone to enjoy
- Helen Glad.
- Helen Glad.
The Magic Pudding retails for $40 at the gallery and other bookshops. Gallery visitors will also be able to purchase mugs, egg cups and tea towels created especially for the 90th anniversary and featuring illustrations from the book.
Cost for the day out is $6 for children and $10 for adults. The Norman Lindsay Gallery, a National Trust property, is located at 14 Norman Lindsay Crescent, Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains. Tel: (02) 4751 1067.
About The Magic Pudding:
Believing that children preferred food to fairies, Norman Lindsay cooked up a recipe for success that has lingered for 90 years. Never out of print since 1918, The Magic Pudding is a feast of funny adventures and loveable characters: Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle, Sam Sawnoff, and Albert, the pudding.
Discovered in mysterious circumstances, Albert is no ordinary pudding. No matter how much you eat, he never shows a mark. Whistle twice, turn the basin around, and he changes from steak and kidney to hot jam roll or apple dumpling in the wink of an eye! The pudding is cranky, and his manners are appalling, but he tastes delicious and loves to be eaten. And he’s about to get his owners into all sorts of trouble…
The new edition of this timeless Australian classic has been carefully and beautifully designed. The original artwork has been rescanned to show the illustrations in all their exquisite detail. This edition also contains early reviews of The Magic Pudding, plus a fascinating collection of correspondence between Norman Lindsay and his publishers, Angus & Robertson, from the A & R Archives held in the Mitchell Library. The letters were selected with the assistance of Lindsay’s granddaughter, Helen Glad, who has written a short biography of Lindsay, complete with photographs, especially for this book.
About Norman Lindsay:
Norman Lindsay is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest and most influential artists, producing a vast body of work in different media. In addition to his children’s classic, The Magic Pudding, Lindsay is most famous for his controversial paintings and etchings of nudes.
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