The Magic Pudding / Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff

A young koala leaves his uncle's crowded home and takes to the road posing as a gentleman of leisure, where he meets a blustering sailor and a jaunty penguin who share an animate, self-regenerating pudding that continually provokes appetite, mischief, and pursuit. The trio form an unlikely companionship and embark on a string of comic, episodic adventures centered on protecting, eating, and being outwitted over the pudding. The text alternates jaunty narrative with rhymes and illustrations, using broad humor and gentle satire of manners and mateship to create a whimsical fable that blends slapstick episodes with playful lyricism.