The Wind on the Moon
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| Book: | The Wind on the Moon |
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| Author: | Eric Linklater |
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| Publisher: | NYR Children's Collection |
A tale of hilarity and great adventure, The Wind on the Moon is also a work of high seriousness; after all, "life without freedom," as the valiant puma makes clear, "is a poor, poor thing."
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When Major Palfrey is held captive by the evil Count Hulagu Bloot, the major's twin daughters, Dinah and Dorinda, join forces with a local witch to rescue him.
The Wind on the Moon began as a story Linklater told his two daughters when they were caught in the rain on a walk. As his son describes it, "It was so good, such a wonderful and entrancing tale, that they begged him to write it down, and so he did." The book later won the Carnegie Medal and was nominated for best book of 1944. "Those dear children, bellowing their anger," wrote Linklater about his daughters’ role in inspiring the story. "How grateful I was!"
