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| So Firen slipped out of her bedroom window and into the night world in search of her lost sleep. The restless girl demands help from the moon. The moon responds by sending her a gift, the moonflute - a musical, shimmering light that spirits Firen away on a fantastic adventure. |
| "Although this book is hard to find, it's one of my personal favorites. With crickets and katydids and a night hot and shining with full-moon magic - the images are straight from my southern childhood." A.W. |
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Publishers Weekly - July 25, 1986
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| "A departure in style from KING BIDGOOD'S IN THE BATHTUB and THE NAPPING HOUSE, this offering from the talented Wood team is a dreamy fantasy about a girl named Firen. "On a night when the moon was full of itself, full of restless dreams and wide-awake thoughts," Firen asks the moon to give her back her sleep, but the moon gives her instead a magic moonflute that allows her to fly high over the green patchwork countryside and to see cats, whales, bats and monkeys. The story seems to serve as a loosly connected pretext for the extraordinary oil paintings, some of which have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fantasy lovers will enjoy Firen, who hovers above the animals in a circle of moonlight white and delicate as a dandelion seed or a dream. (4-8)" |
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