The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a
steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants
it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut,
there's always something left over. It's magic.
But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got
a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger
Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum (the koala bear) finds out
when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff (the penguin
bold) as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members
are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song
and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding."
Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands
somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as
one of the craziest books ever written for young readers.