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{{quote|''"When there is wind on the moon, you must be very careful how you behave. Because if it is an ill wind, and you behave badly, it will blow straight into your heart, and then you will behave badly for a long time to come."''}}
''[[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, [[What an Idiot!|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 [[Balloon Belly|turn into balloon-shaped blobs]], then crying so much at the [[Children Are Cruel|bullying the other children subject them to]] that they grow thin again, whereupon they are [[Crowning Moment of Funny|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) [[Animorphism|to turn into kangaroos]] so they can [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|kick everyone around]]. However, they get [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|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 acquired as kangaroos (such as being able to [[Speaks Fluent Animal|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.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Dinah and Dorinda.
* [[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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