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172 pp.
| NYRB
| April, 2004
|
TradeISBN 1-59017-101-2$16.95 Reissue (1936, Farrar & Rinehart)
(3)
4-6
New York Review Children's Collection series.
This reissue of an Australian classic describes the nonsensical exploits of a koala and his friends (an old sailor and a penguin) who own a magic pudding. The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic verse at the drop of a hat, and it's hard to resist a book that has no redeeming social value whatsoever.