The Magic Moth
by Virginia Lee
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Thin Sara's family is so unconventional and fat Glenda's so conventional that the differences put a real strain on the two girls' friendship.Tags
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A slightly dated book, but the lessons learned transcend the barriers of time. Maryanne, the middle of five children, has a heart defect and has been ill for a long time. She has been close to the youngest child, Mark-O, but is now too sick to tell him stories. When Maryanne dies the family is around her, and a moth hatches in her room at the exact moment of death. Mark-O thinks that the moth could be related to the death and draws a picture of the magic moth for the family to remember Maryanne. Mark-O and his mother talk about why Maryanne was born and the lessons she passed on.
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- Canonical title
- The Magic Moth
- Original title
- The Magic Moth
- Original publication date
- 1972; 1974 (Nederlandse vertaling) (Nederlandse vertaling)
- Original language*
- Engels
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .L51495 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- (4.30)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
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