How Beloved are "Magic Pudding" & "Nargun and the Stars"?

Hello, Noddy.

In answer to the part of the question in your thread title: The Magic Pudding was a much-loved Oz childrens' yarn when I was growing up. I'm not sure if it's as popular these days, though. Norman Lindsay (the author) is a well-known Oz artist, also famous for erotic drawings of women & cats. (He was a great lover of women & cats! )

I'm not familiar with the other titles you mention, but then I was probably in the process of familiarizing myself with the English language (& reading lots of Enid Blyton!) when other children my age were reading them.
I'll bet others Oz A2Kers will be able to tell you more, though.

The Magic Pudding
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)

One of the riginal illustrations for The Magic Pudding c.1918
crayon, pen and wash drawings mounted in large albums; 47.0 x 40.0cm

http://nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/site/Treasures/item/nla.int-ex6-s17/nla.int-ex6-s17

Ms. Olga--

Thank you. That's the sort of musing I was hoping for.

I knew about the Magic Pudding, and read it...never liked it, though.

One of my friends when I was very young was in a children's theatre group, and I remember they did a production of it, and kept the papier mache pudding, which looked very evil....just as Lindsay drew him.


I have...very vaguely...heard of the Nargun and the Stars.....but that is all.

(Isn't it maddening when you revisit a thread & discover a glaring mistake in your post & can't change it?

Childrens': plural = apostrophe should be before the s, not after! )

Msolga--

Even Bold Homer nods.

Deb--

Thanks for the memories.