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Bunyip Bluegum is a very special koala bear who sets off one day on his travels as he wants to see the world. What he discovers however is a magic pudding which never seems to run out…
The Magic Pudding
What you need to know before your trail
Bunyip Bluegum may be a koala bear but he wants to do more than sit and eat leaves and climb trees – he wants to travel the world. So he sets off with only a walking stick for company and before long comes across a sailor and Penguin ( Bill and Sam) tucking into a pudding, This pudding is magic as it never seems to run out – it always reforms itself once you take a bite. Sam and Bill invite Bunyip to join them on their travels and they tell him the story about the pudding. They warn him that they are always on the look out for the pudding thieves – a possum and a wombat. But the pudding thieves are closer than they think…
Travel Guide
A travelling Koala bear and a pudding named Albert you can eat on the way that has a personality and an ability to regenerate itself. Perfect travelling companion really when you think about it. Bill and Sam are great friends to meet along the way – one’s a pirate and the other a penguin so travelling is in their blood.
Even the pudding has a travelling story to tell as it was created on an iceberg following a shipwreck. This pudding has survived to tell the tale since so to let two pudding thieves such as a possum and a wombat steal it would be the ultimate disaster.
Their desire to protect this pudding as they travel is very strong so when it does get stolen, the challenge is to get it back safe and sound. Bunyip is invited to join the Noble Society of Pudding Owners and the challenge is set.
The attempts to rescue and then steal this pudding again takes them all on quite a journey! It’s in the (fictional) town of Tooraloo that the travelling tale comes to a head.
This book has been turned into a film with the pudding voiced by none other than John Cleese and it’s a very funny one that stays true to the book.
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
I loved the magic porridge pot as a child so when I found this one about a pudding that never ran out set in Australia I so wanted to read it. It’s very funny and very clever too from the names of the characters to the story of ho the pudding came to be. When Bunyip goes on his travels, I was intrigued and so when he meets Sam and Bill and of course the pudding I was just dying to know more. How could anyone steal Albert! No! Would he be found again? Would everything be alright? Now I know this is a classic Australian tale for children but it really reminded me of the tension I felt as a child when that porridge just wouldn’t stop and I was dying to know if the pudding thieves would prevail!
Enjoy!
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