Molly Moon

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Molly Moon is the protagonist of the series of children's books by Georgia Byng named after her . The first volume was first published in Germany in 2003 by Carl Hanser Verlag . The paperback edition followed a year later in the Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag . The original publication was in 2002 under the English title Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Harper Collins Verlag .

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Molly Moon (1st volume)

Molly is an orphan girl in a children's home and has an uncomfortable life there. She is tormented by both the other orphans and the director of the home. Her only joy is seeing herself in commercials with her best friend Rocky. When Molly, after an argument with Rocky, finds a work on hypnosis in the Briersville library instead of going off-road, she notices that she has already implemented some of the instructions intuitively. In the course of the plot it turns out that she has a great talent for hypnosis.

She first hypnotizes the pug of the home manager Miss Adderstone, Petula , before she can also hypnotize the cook Edna and Miss Adderstone herself, which makes her euphoric and thus also successful, as she initially hypnotizes other people in her hometown and is thus successful for the public becomes. She then comes to London, where she travels to look for Rocky, who was adopted shortly after she found her hypnosis book without saying goodbye.

In New York, however, she meets again the criminal Nockman, who had already asked for the book in the library in Briersville and followed Molly to New York. Nockman cannot be hypnotized because he knows about the power of hypnosis and therefore wears appropriate protective equipment. He tries to force Molly to rob a bank by threatening to expose her fraud through hypnosis. He also kidnaps Petula, who was always with Molly and who she has grown to love.

Finally, Rocky, who had also learned to hypnotize by means of the voice, and Molly meet again. Together, with the help of a hypnotic trick, they manage to free Petula and to carry out the bank robbery themselves, but to bring their loot back to the New York population by means of hollow garden gnomes filled with ornaments, which they distribute throughout the city at night. They can also use a ruse to arrest Nockman.

Rocky and Molly then return to the children's home in Briersville to look after the children. The librarian from whom she had borrowed the book told her in the library on a full moon night after Molly had hypnotized her there that it was she who had brought Molly and the book together. It also turns out that the librarian is the great-granddaughter of the author of the hypnosis book. The book ends with this explanation and a short excursus about the activities of the home manager Miss Adderstone and cook Edna, who are in Italy at the same time as the effects of hypnosis.

main characters

Molly Moon is ten years old and raised in the Briersville Orphanage. She was found in a box of Moons marshmallows. Since there was also a lolly in the box, the home management wanted to christen it Lolly Moon first, from which the name "Molly Moon" developed. The author describes it as dreamy and balanced; later she becomes very successful.

Rocky Scarlett was taken to the orphanage with Molly and is her best friend. The home management took its name from the stroller in which it was found, on which a drawing of the Rocky Mountains could be seen. Rocky is also balanced, but less dreamy and more attentive and more obedient to authority.

Professor Nockman is a felon and wants to use hypnosis for criminal purposes with the help of hypnosis and the hypnosis book that Molly happened to find in front of him in the Briersville library.

Miss Adderstone, the director of the children's home, detests and torments children. She behaves in a dismissive manner and is always looking for reasons for punishment. In particular, she's after Molly, whom she hates because of her balanced but dreamy nature.

literature

Work editions
Follow-up volumes
  • Molly Moon (Original: Molly Moon) 2003.
  • Molly Moon and the Eye of Time. (Original: Molly Moon Stops in the World ) 2005. ISBN 3-423-62234-2 .
  • Molly Moon and the Indian magician. (Original: Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure ), 2007. ISBN 3-423-62323-3 .
  • Molly Moon and the lost twin. (Original: Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine ), 2009. ISBN 3-446-23377-6 .
  • Molly Moon and the Transformation Charm. (Original: Molly Moon & the Morphing Mystery ), 2010. ISBN 978-3-446-23782-7 .

Film adaptations

  • 2015: Molly Moon After the 1st volume. On IMDB , the title is Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism .

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