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Winner of the Carnegie MedalIn the English town of Midmeddlecum, Main Palfrey requires his two kids while he's off at war to behave themselves. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we're quite apt to be bad, however hard we do not be," and her sibling Dorinda adds helpfully, "Frequently, when we think we're acting nicely, some grown up person claims we're actually quite bad. It is hard to inform which is which." Affirmed, the naughty siblings quickly persuade a judge that thoughts must certanly be changed as frequently as clothes, phase a getaway from the neighborhood zoo (because of a witch's potion which transforms them into kangaroos), and—in the organization of the gold puma and silver falcon—set down to save their father from the tyrant of Bombardy. An account of excellent and humor journey, The Wind on the Moon can also be a function of high importance; in the end, "living without liberty," whilst the puma makes obvious, "is just a poor, poor thing."