Norman Lindsay wrote the classic Australian children's book: The Magic Pudding. The story is about Bunyip Bluegum, a koala, who meets up with Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff (a penguin), proud pudding owners. The pudding is eaten every day and still continues to be the pudding. Being eaten every day makes the pudding grumpy and also the object of the dastardly pudding thieves, Wombat and Possum! These are the characters we tried unsuccessfully to get close to in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and the book that we got through after pages and pages of song, sung poorly by the reader.
Here in Faulconbridge, NSW, you can visit the
Norman Lindsay Gallery, which is where he lived most of his life. All the streets nearby are named for the book characters. We didn't actually go in the gallery, because his art wasn't all for children's books and the kids had enough touring for one day, but we did snag a picture with the Pudding!
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