{"id":4218,"date":"2021-10-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.com\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2021-10-20T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:49:14","slug":"book-review-listen-to-the-moon-by-michael-morpurgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/book-review-listen-to-the-moon-by-michael-morpurgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/hcp_091596.jpeg?w=191\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4219\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Listen to the Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Michael Morpurgo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Children&#8217;s Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Review by:<\/strong> Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>The month is May.\u00c2\u00a0 The year, 1915.\u00c2\u00a0 On an uninhabited island in the Scillies, Alfie and his father discover an injured girl &#8211; thirsty, hungry and with not an inkling of who she is or how she came to be there.\u00c2\u00a0 Is she a mermaid? A ghost? Or could she even be, as some islanders suggest, a German spy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Review:<\/strong> Like all other Michael Morpurgo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books, his novel entrances the reader until you become lost within the pages and the lives of the characters within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baffled by two simple, yet difficult questions, the reader wonders\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. Who is this girl?&nbsp; And how did she come to be here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, why is she on a barren island?&nbsp; Alone, with no provisions and no memory of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kindly, Alfie and his family take the lost girl into their home.\u00c2\u00a0 The town crowns her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lucy Lost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br>Walk alongside Lucy Lost to discover just how lost she really is.\u00c2\u00a0 Is she a German spy like some fear?.\u00c2\u00a0 Or perhaps she truly is a mermaid washed up on the shoreline.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe, just maybe, she truly is a ghost, wondering, lost, nameless\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would recommend this book to your readers who enjoy a good mystery with a hint of history added into the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoy this book, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d strongly recommend you grab Morpurgo&#8217;s other book <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153War Horse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em> for another great read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;d like to read this book for free online, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/kildare.borrowbox.com\/product\/HCP_091596\/title\/listen-to-the-moon\">BorrowBox<\/a>. It can also be borrowed from any of our libraries and you can request the title <a href=\"https:\/\/librariesireland.iii.com\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3537999__Slisten%20to%20the%20moon__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&amp;suite=def\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Listen to the Moon Author: Michael Morpurgo Genre: Children&#8217;s Fiction Review by: Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ Synopsis: The month is May.\u00c2\u00a0 The year, 1915.\u00c2\u00a0 On an uninhabited island in the Scillies, Alfie and his father discover an injured girl &#8211; thirsty, hungry and with not an inkling of who she is or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182174489,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6925997],"tags":[7215,260937753,702194613,192244],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews-and-recommendations","tag-book-review","tag-children-ages-8-to-12","tag-kildare-libraries","tag-michael-morpurgo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182174489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}