The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)
Book by Kelly Barnhill
DETAILS
Publisher : Algonquin Young Readers; 1st Edition (August 9, 2016) Language : English Hardcover : 400 pages ISBN-10 : 1616205679 ISBN-13 : 978-1616205676 Reading age : 8 - 12 years, from customers Lexile measure : 640L Grade level : 5 - 9 , Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016 Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2016 2017 Booklist Youth Editors’ Choice Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge--with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . . The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy . Read more
REVIEW
This may sound crazy, but “Sorrow is a dangerous thing” indeed. Upon reading the chapters which makes this novel begins to be interesting (where Luna starts searching for her Grandmama / Xan), at Sunday afternoon I was trying to accompany my youngest daughter to take a nap, she usually will get cranky if she is lack of sleep, so I tried to persuade her to sleep all the while I was sleepy too. But like any child at her age, two and a half years old, she was still full of energy and never even close her eyes, instead she jumped on the bed all the time and asked me to play with her. Of course I was angry, I was sleepy and had a small headache, I was furious at her. But she kept smiling at me, she kept asking me simple little questions like: what is this thing father? In the end, she was awake and kept playing, while I left her with my wife and I went to the store. I was still mad at her. Mad is close to sorrow. At night around 10:30PM, while she was sleeping, she suddenly awaken and started crying without the usual reasons (hungry for a milk, wet her bed, etc.), she just cried and cried asking for her mother to lay in bed next to her. My wife tried sleeping besides her, but my daughter kept crying until my wife mad at her and raised her voice at our crying daughter. I was reading the thrilling part of the book where Luna met the Head Sisters (Ignatia the Sorrow Eater) for the first time, I didn’t notice it first while my daugher was crying, but it hit me shortly after: she must be really sad, she must have had a very bad nightmare, she didn’t know how to explain it to us, and we didn’t realised that too. I realised it because I was reading the part where Xan just realised why the sorrowful fog is hanging on the Protectorate all this time, after Antaine told her the story of the Witch in the woods while Xan is transformed as a swallow. It just hit me, at that moment at that time when I was watching our daughter cried and sobbing next to her angry mother. Why didn’t I see it, is what I said to myself just like what Xan said to herself in the book. Sad is sorrow. She was just extremely sad, most probably because of a very bad nightmare, and she needed our touch of love. So I lifted her up into my arms, held her and kissed her, she was still sobbing and kept asking for her mother instead. After a little while she was calming down a bit, and I told my wife all of those that hit me, she felt so sorry and held our daughter while sleeping together. Our daughter stops crying instantly after my wife kissed her and carressed her, and she slept instantly in the arms of my wife. After that she slept so soundly until morning. “Sorrow is a dangerous thing”, how that is so true. My little daughter was trying to cheer me up at noon, I wasn’t aware of that, instead I was mad at her. She was sad and cried because of it when she was sleeping, me and my wife didn’t realised it, but thank goodness I read this book and somehow an angel whispered to me so that we may understand and hold our youngest daughter with our arms, blanketed her with our warm love and care. Just like how Xan loves Luna, Glerk and Fyrian. And how they loved her back, unreserved and whole heartedly too. Thank you for the book, the story, and especially the love you put to write it down. It reached me, ever so subtly, and now I’m going to pass it along to my family too. Hopefully other readers will be touched too. My only critic for this book is it could be so much better, the author has created stories and characters (with their background story) that intrigued me to see how they’ll reveal more of themselves. Like Ethyne, how she can become so fierce and influential to the other Sisters, I thought she’s a witch too, but the story ends without any further explanation… And my credit for this book is even for a short time the author is able to make a genuine affection between the characters, and the readers will feel it too, especially the ending. “Sorrow is a dangerous thing,” this isn’t just a made-up phrase for a novel, it’s true in real life.
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