Comments on: P is for Possum Magic & picture books…

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:17:26 +0000

I totally had an old book flashback today about some guy with a fancy mustache riding a penny farthing bike (old bike with tiny wheel in front and huge wheel at the back), crashing through the aussie bush totally outta control, then falling head first into a pond. I really remember an emu or ostridge too… So anyway I went searching online for the book cause I just had to see the picture I had in my head.. of the man, the bike and the emu… and I found the book! ‘A.B. Paterson’s “Mulga Bill’s Bicycle”. But I just havnt seen the emu anywhere… maybe I totally made that up..but it seems so clear to me!! Anywho! Its been great reminiscing about an awesome book that has obviously stuck with me for years…even if I may have added emu’s here and there!

By: cooper71

cooper71 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:21:46 +0000

**********************************************************************P is for Possum Magic

By: SAMANTH

SAMANTH — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:17:29 +0000

WHAT ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: make quick money

make quick money — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:35:20 +0000

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

By: Free Travel Guides

Free Travel Guides — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:10:56 +0000

You should definitely find a better job… actually that was pretty well written

By: YY

YY — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:14:25 +0000

This is a strange comment..but..

OMG I LOVE POSSUMS!

By: tj-injapan

tj-injapan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:19:45 +0000

I have this book too, and read it to K all the time. She actually also has a version called The Little Book of Possom Magic, which is a cardboard book so she can’t rip the pages (one of her favourite passtimes). It is only a picture book though, not the full story.
I took Possom Magic to her playgroup (here in Japan) once to read, but not sure if the mums and kids really appreciated (read: understood!!) the references to minties and pavlova and vegemite sandwhiches, lol! Oh well, we enjoy it.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:02:10 +0000

Ahhh Lulu, you and I think alike…actually I’ve already started buying books for my future children. I bought heaps when I was in Japan and also in Germany. I’ve also kept all my favourites from when I was a kid. I love reading books my niece has that didn’t exist when I was younger.

Lets see my personal favouties were the Richard Scary Books, The Cat in the Hat (and all the Dr Seuss books), The Bearenstein Bears, Where the Wildthings are, The Hungry Little Caterpiller and all the classic fairytales like Rapunzel, Snow White, Red Riding Hood….That’s about all I can think of right now but i’m sure there are more….ha ha

By: sara

sara — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:07:04 +0000

Ohh… I’d love to take a read of it sometime!!
Maybe I’ll have you read in to my (future) kiddies so they can get the true Ozzie experience lol.

Since my Dad is British I had a lot of British childrens books while I was growing up and they are way more memorable to me than the American ones that I grew up with. I’m not sure if they would have been published there but I really liked the Postman Pat series and I’m forgetting the name but a series about a cat with emerald eyes… I wish I could remember.

By: Midori

Midori — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:52:23 +0000

Joey has that book because his Godmother (my cousin) is Australian. He loves animals so loves this one too. He loves all books that have animals in them. A current fave is a goldilocks and the 3 bears pop up book that my Mum bought him, along with a Dora the Explorer book he got for his birthday.