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The Wind on the Moon New York Review Children Collection Eric Linklater Nicolas Bentley Books

If you read the other reviews, you will notice how many say that this was the reviwer’s favorite childhood book in the 1930s or 40s, or was their grandparents’ favorite childhood book, but not many that say it is a current favorite of their own child or grandchild. The book is very dated. I like many of the books in the NYRB series but this one does not age well. I had to keep explaining to my daughter, age 5, all about why grown-ups used to spank children and why it was not be unusual for fathers to disappear for a year or two on business. We just live in such a different world now. With true classics, like Robinson Crusoe, Black Beauty, the Secret Garden, anything by EB White or TH White, the difference in worlds doesn’t matter so much - or enhances the ability to enter another imaginative space – and the beauty of the work endures. With this one, the period details are distracting and the story doesn’t come through as much, at least for this reader and her child.


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The Wind on the Moon New York Review Children Collection Eric Linklater Nicolas Bentley Books Reviews

As a child living temporarily with my mother in London, four books got me through The Wind on the Moon and also The Pink Ballet Slippers by Evelyn S. Dehkes and Ballet Shoes and Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfeild. However, as others have commented, The Wind on the Moon is the one I've reread the most. My old hardcover edition is well-loved, and it is probably no coincidence that my all-time favorite book also is about two sisters The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett. It is wonderful to see The Wind on the Moon back in print and to give it as a gift for today's children to discover and enjoy. It is absolutely magical.
I loved this book when I was a kid and was ecstatic when I saw it had been re-released. Imaginative and well plotted, the adventures of Diana and Dorinda will make parents and children smile.
I would recommend this book to everyone! Age is no issue!
The book is full of wisdom, evil versus good, love and respect for all human beings including all kinds of animals, communication between people and animals, focusing on how to understand and respect each other, also how parents should respect their children and listen to them. The two characters Dinah and Dorinda are brave little girls who fight against forces stronger than themselves. A fantastic book which I highly recommend.
The other reviews, both customer and editorial, of this book say it all. Almost. What is not apparent at first sight is the impression one chapter in particular must have made on the readers of the book when it was first published. After Dinah and Dorinda's father has admonished them to be good while he goes off to Bombardy, one of the first things they do is to start overeating. They eat like pigs and get fatter and fatter every day. The author includes Lucullan descriptions of all the sumptuous dishes they greedily devour. Now, the book was publiched in 1943 or 44, at the height of rationing in Britain, where there were no eggs, no cream, a few ounces of meat per week, and even very little -- gasp -- tea! The mouths of readers must have watered; tantalizing would be the only word for it. It would take years for the British public to taste the like again.

Buy this book for yourself and for any child of your acquaintance!
I first read this book when I was about 10. That was 35 years ago. I never forgot it, and was overjoyed to see it reprinted recently.

I'm currently reading it to my two children, who are nearly 5 and nearly 7. At first they were very reluctant, because they're used to books with more illustrations. But as we've started on more chapter books, they've enjoyed The Little Prince and The Muddle-Headed Wombat and The Wind in the Willows. We're only 5 chapters in, but already they beg me to read more and more; they're enchanted by the unique magic this book offers. I highly recommend it, to those children who are naughty as well as those who are not -- either way, they will relate to Dinah and Dorinda and their adventures. The themes are universal, and the characters are charming (in every sense of the word).
This book for children is absolutely brilliant.
One day, when I was eleven (in 1958), my eldest brother gave this book to me, and I remember reading it more than once.
I could never forget the friendship Dorinda and Dinah enjoyed with the silver falcon and the golden puma, nor title or name of the author.
Throughout my adult life I hoped to one day discover this book again, to find out why it had left an indelible feeling of longing to read it again.
Recently I purchased a pc.
My friends told me about , that many old and new books could be found and bought there.
I was very happy to see The Wind on the Moon appear on my screen!
I ordered the book, and when it arrived, every night before going to sleep I read and read, and again the uniquely enchanting story, full of unexpected turns and white magic, made it quite impossible to stop reading and go to sleep.
The cover is lovely, the pictures are wonderful, and the letters are just
the right size, not too small.
The conversations between Dinah and Dorinda are masterly, and the entire adventure they experience is a dream for young and old!
I never knew that this book won the Carnegie Medal, and that it was nominated for best book of 1944.
It is amazing it did not win the price for best book of that year.
Young and old will forget all the worries in the world while reading
The Wind on the Moon.
It arrived well and is a wonderful book. When I was a child, my mom read to me and my sister every night. Of the books she read to us, including the Mary Poppins series and Kipling's first jungle book, The Wind on the Moon was high, high, high on my list of unforgettable. As I grew up and had children of my own, I had no idea how to get hold of this book. And then came the internet, and along with it, 6 grandchildren. Thanks to I'm now passing on to my grandkids the joy of this incredible story.
If you read the other reviews, you will notice how many say that this was the reviwer’s favorite childhood book in the 1930s or 40s, or was their grandparents’ favorite childhood book, but not many that say it is a current favorite of their own child or grandchild. The book is very dated. I like many of the books in the NYRB series but this one does not age well. I had to keep explaining to my daughter, age 5, all about why grown-ups used to spank children and why it was not be unusual for fathers to disappear for a year or two on business. We just live in such a different world now. With true classics, like Robinson Crusoe, Black Beauty, the Secret Garden, anything by EB White or TH White, the difference in worlds doesn’t matter so much - or enhances the ability to enter another imaginative space – and the beauty of the work endures. With this one, the period details are distracting and the story doesn’t come through as much, at least for this reader and her child.