A review by curatoriallyyours
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs

adventurous tense fast-paced

3.0

Talk about fast-paced! No sooner had one problem resolved that another began! And, for a children’s book, there were an awful amount of murderous schemes! This is definitely a book of its time but I can see the charm of it and the way it would have captured the imagination of children when it was published. I’m glad to have read this piece of Australian history but I don’t think I’ll be recommending it for small children! I will, however, be magpieing the word “deadibones” and I will continue to refer to banksia seedpods as big bad banksia men until I am deadibones myself!