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The Wind on the Moon

by Eric Linklater
Nicolas Bentley
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A Carnegie Medal winner, this delightful fantasy will appeal to children who love Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows.
Major Palfrey is leaving for the wars, and he tells his two girls, Dinah and Dorinda, to be good while he is gone. But the sisters aren’t sure they can be. As Dorinda explains, “When we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which.”
Sure enough, the sisters are soon up to their usual mischief. They convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch’s potion which turns them into kangaroos), and—in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon—set off to rescue their father from the wicked tyrant of Bombardy. Penned at the height of World War II, this tale of hilarity and great adventure is also a work of high seriousness; after all, “life without freedom,” as the valiant puma makes clear, “is a poor, poor thing.”

  • Creators

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  • Release date

    September 7, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781590174333

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781590174333
      • File size: 4085 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1010
    • Text Difficulty: 6-8

  • Reviews

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2005
      In this reissue of a Carnegie Award winner two sisters drink a magic potion that turns them into kangaroos, help a puma and a falcon regain their freedom, solve the mystery of a disappearing ostrich egg, and rescue their imprisoned father from an evil tyrant. This wildly inventive British fantasy begs to be read aloud.

      (Copyright 2005 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
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  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1010
  • Text Difficulty:6-8

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