| Author: Kelly Barnhill Book Review By: Keerat Goyal Grade 4 |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
I would like to recommend this amazing fairytale to young children 9+ years old, as well as adults and grandparents up to 99+ years old, because it is an amazing, heartwarming, and enchanting story about family, growing up, and magic. It guides us to choose love, hope, truth, and compassion over sorrow, fear, and selfishness. It’s a captivating story filled with whimsical and loving characters with magical powers.
The story is engaging with an interesting plot, and it has deeper meanings of hope, sorrow and the power of love. It explores Luna’s journey from a small baby to young woman and her path of self-discovery, love, finding her place in the whole wide world.
The best part of the story is when Luna finds out that she is a witch, and with her newfound magical powers, she follows her heart to rescue her grandmother. My favorite character from the story is Luna because she is a unique, feisty, intelligent, extraordinarily gifted witch who must figure out how to handle the magical powers she was accidentally given before it is too late. The part of the story which I didn’t like was where the madwoman was put in the flower prison for 12-13 years just because she tried to protect her baby.
If I could do something different in the story, I would never let Antain tell the Grand Elder his plan of killing the witch, as the Grand Elder is not a trustworthy character. This book taught me to choose love, hope, truth, and compassion over sorrow, fear, and selfishness. Fears and lies keep people trapped, but love, truth, and courage can set them free.
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