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The Wind on the Moon

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The Wind on the Moon	comment	The Wind on the Moon is a 1944 Carnegie-winning children's novel by British author Eric Linklater. It tells of Dinah and Dorinda, the young daughters of a British officer who live in the town of Midmeddlecum. When their father leaves for war, he warns his daughters to behave with the above quote, thereby unintentionally giving them what they feel is the perfect excuse to misbehave as much as they want.Over the course of the year he is gone, the two sisters get into several increasingly surreal misadventures, such as overeating so much they turn into balloon-shaped blobs, then crying so much at the bullying the other children subject them to that they grow thin again, whereupon they are mistaken for match-sticks by a confused old lady. As revenge against the bullying children, they use a magic potion (given to Dinah by an old witch) to turn into kangaroos so they can kick everyone around. However, they get stuck in kangaroo form and are caught and brought to a zoo. Here they have several small misadventures, befriend other animals, help solve a mystery, and eventually stage an escape. After returning to their normal human selves, they use the skills and knowledge they aquired as kangaroos (such as being able to talk to the animals) to free their beloved dance teacher from jail, and in the last, grandest adventure, travel to the far-off country of Bombardy, where their father has been imprisoned by the tyrannical Duke Hulagu Bloot.The Wind on the Moon is mostly a comedy with heavy overtones of fantasy, but the later part of the book contains several darker themes and at least one very powerful Tear Jerker.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Dorinda sometimes has traces of this, getting jealous when the older Dinah tells her she is "too young" for something (most notably getting to actually meet Mrs. Grimble). For the most part averted, though, as the sisters are very much a double act for the majority of the story.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
The Wind on the Moon / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: Discussed in-universe. The Golden Puma and Silver Falcon are predators, and despite being treated as sympathetic characters, they still talk and act like predators. Dinah and Dorinda are conflicted on this, feeling bad for the prey but realizing that the animals need to eat.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Wind on the Moon / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Mr Parker claims to have been one of the greatest detectives in the world before turning into a giraffe, but his skills at solving mysteries leave a lot to be desired. Dorinda speculates that he must be out of practice.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Wind on the Moon / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Dinah and Dorinda rescue their father and return home to England, leaving the country of Bombardy minus one tyrannical Duke, but the Golden Puma is dead, the Silver Falcon and Mrs Grimble both leave, and it's heavily hinted that the magical and wondrous part of the girls' lives is at an end.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Wind on the Moon / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The Silver Falcon. He's arrogant and callous, but an affectionate friend to the Golden Puma, and later on to Dinah and Dorinda. Dinah and Dorinda also have traces of this; they misbehave for fun, but they are ultimately kind and helpful. They also suffer so much for their bad deeds that it's hard not to feel sorry for them.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
The Wind on the Moon / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: Dinah and Dorinda, on-screen, thanks to Mrs. Grimble's magic potion. Part of Mr. Parker's backstory, though we never get a clear answer (beyond some speculation) as to just why he turned into a giraffe.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Wind on the Moon / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The animal characters, in their conversations, waiver back and forth between this and Humans Are Special.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_6fc192ef	type	Jerkass Woobie
The Wind on the Moon / int_6fc192ef	comment	Dinah and Dorinda also have traces of this; they misbehave for fun, but they are ultimately kind and helpful. They also suffer so much for their bad deeds that it's hard not to feel sorry for them.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
The Wind on the Moon / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: Mrs. Grimble, the witch. Though her magic drives much of the plot, she never actually appears on-page. Our only real exposure to her is through Dinah's descriptions and stories of her, as well as the letter she writes to the sisters in the last part of the book.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_7ec8506d	type	Animal Talk
The Wind on the Moon / int_7ec8506d	comment	Animal Talk: All animals can understand one another instinctively, though they don't understand humans.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Wind on the Moon / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Miss Serendip, the governess, who can't say a single sentence without inserting all kinds of trivia.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
The Wind on the Moon / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Mr Parker. He's a human who's been turned into a giraffe, so you think he'd be open to the idea of magic and witches — but he utterly refuses to believe in either, claiming that he probably just turned into a giraffe because he foolishly wished to be taller when he was human.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The Wind on the Moon / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Though Dinah is two years older than Dorinda, they act like this for large parts of the book.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Wind on the Moon / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Dinah and Dorinda's mother, who has been shown as a kindly, if long-suffering, parent, shows surprising traits of this when the girls are gone for weeks, and she barely notices. This is explained by her having received a message that her husband has been taken prisoner by an evil dictator, but still... the girls were gone for weeks, and she didn't notice.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Wind on the Moon / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Mr Corvo, the dance teacher. Maybe not so much a moron, but he's a mild-mannered man who teacher music and dance, and it comes as a genuine shock when he proves to be a warrior and swordsman. He even carries a cane that conceals a rapier!
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The Wind on the Moon / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
The Wind on the Moon / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Averted when Dinah and Dorinda turn into kangaroos — the witch's notes for magic potion they drink explicitly tells the drinker to undress before drinking the potion, so the transformation will not ruin the clothes. When the girls are ready to become human again, they are concerned that they won't find their clothes again and have to walk around naked, but luckily the Silver Falcon finds the clothes easily.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Wind on the Moon / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Dinah and Dorinda's entire reason for turning into kangaroos in the first place. Mild version, since they're not trying to seriously hurt anyone, just kick them around for a bit.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Wind on the Moon / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The first two-thirds of the book are mostly devoted to Dinah and Dorinda's comical misbehaving, and the bizarre situatons they get in as a result. The last third begins to show some more serious consequences to their previous misadventures, and takes a takes a turn for the darker for their journey to Bombardy — the comedy never really vanishes, but it gets increasingly obvious that it's no longer a fun game. In the end, though they get their father back, the magic and adventure seems to be vanishing from their lives: the Golden Puma is dead, the Silver Falcon has returned to Greenland, and even Mrs Grimble vanishes, the magical cuckoo clock she left behind for the girls malfunctioning and proves impossible to repair properly.
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The Wind on the Moon / int_e3c552cb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Wind on the Moon / int_e3c552cb	comment	Arson Murder And Jay Walking: The prosecutor Mr. Jobsons handbill argues his clients to litigate their neighbours for crimes such as maiming their cattle, setting fire to their houses, kidnapping their children, and... borrowing their lawnmowers!
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The Wind on the Moon / int_f01a54f1	type	Evil Feels Good
The Wind on the Moon / int_f01a54f1	comment	Evil Feels Good: Mild version, since Dinah and Dorinda are never actually evil, just naughty. However, an early segment in the story describes the thrill and glee they feel at the thought of being bad for an entire year. Later on subverted and discussed when the girls, after suffering the consequences of their misbehaving, find that the entire thing hasn't been nearly as much fun as they thought it would be. (Not that this actually stops them from misbehaving, they just decide to be smarter about it.)
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The Wind on the Moon / int_f1356f5e	type	Speaks Fluent Animal
The Wind on the Moon / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Dinah and Dorinda, after their time as kangaroos, still remember how to talk to the animals.
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