The Wind On The Moon

Description

In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters tobehave themselves while he is off at war. Sighing, Dinah says, I think that we arequite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be, and her sister, Dorinda, addshelpfully, Very often, when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up personsays we are really quite bad. It s difficult to tell which is which. Sure enough, themischievous sisters soon convince a judge that minds must be changed as oftenas socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch s potion that turnsthem into kangaroos), and in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of Bombardy. A tale of hilarity andgreat 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. "

Author description

Eric Linklater (1899 1974) wrote scores of novels for adults and children. He alsowas a journalist in India, commander of a wartime fortress in the Orkney Islands, and rector of Aberdeen University. Nicolas Bentley (1907 1978) drew the pictures for the first edition of T. S. Eliot sOld Possum s Book of Practical Cats."