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The Moon in Swampland

M. P. Robertson

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The Moon in Swampland M. P. Robertson "I am the mother of two little girls, two and four years old and my husband is an animation artist who specializes in creature work. He's worked on "Lord of the Rings" and "Spider Web Chronicles" and movies like that. And I think because of his work, my little girls have taken an interest in creature-type illustrations, monsters, fantasy type stories, and this is "The Moon in Swampland." And I think we were all just really attracted by the cover art. There are these little creatures called "bogles" that really look like Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings." And the interesting thing, this is based on a folk tale from the 19th century. And it was meant to be a cautionary tale to children to not go into the swamp at night because bad things could happen to you. The story is essentially about one night when the moon comes down to earth as a woman and decides to investigate what's going on in the swampland. And when she's there, she finds this little boy who is being attacked by the bogles. And she shines her light brightly and so he can see where he's going. He manages to escape. And in the meantime, the bogles capture her and they bring her down below the water and take her, tie her up in one of their underwater lairs. The way the bogles are described as these, sort of evil belching, lurking, kind of characters would be frightening to my little girls, but I don't think they seem to be bothered by it. They seem to approach it as just it was kind of fun to be scared about it. So, I wasn't bothered by that. I think this is good for both little girls and little boys. I would give it four stars."