The Wind On The Moon
(Eric Linklater)
A great book for all ages that I remembered from seeing an episode of
the first few chapters on Jackanory as a child, and have been intrigued
to know the rest ever since. A forerunner of Harry Potter, it has Magic
and a good if rather crankey witch called Mrs Grimble, who helps Dinah
and Dorinda with their adventures. The two girls who are aged about ten
and eleven are inspired by the wind on the moon to behave rebelliously
for a year and this is just aswell as they have to go and rescue their
father Major Palfrey from the dungeons of Count Hulagu Bloot, the
tyrannical ruler of a foreign land somewhere on the other side of
France. Their dance teacher Mr Corvo happens to come from there and he
and their animal friends go with them.
Set in a village called Midmeddlecum in rural England in about
the nineteen forties, but not dated by this, it shows children that
there is often more than one way around a problem and that they are not
always powerless to do something about a situation they don't like, and
to think for themselves. The animals teach them the wisdom of their
ways, life without the worries of being a human being and how to be
experts at doing almost nothing.. But also to be sensible about what
they are doing. They manage to get to the tyrants castle and invade his
private apartments for the night, having got there in a furniture van,
but still remember to make the bed the next morning and take enough
food down a secret tunnel for their friend the Puma.
There is quite a lot of humour in it and I found the two lawyers
proving a point about being stubborn and not changing your mind to the
judge particularly amusing. There is a mystery that the girls solve and
reflections on being greedy that must have been very relevant during
The Second World War with food shortages. There is also a good
smattering of general knowledge thrown in.
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