Bøger om Månebarn

Fast besluttet trådte Elara ud af sengen og tog sit tøj på. Hun greb telefonen, åbnede glasdøren ud til køkkenet og listede ud i gangen. Bandeordene og eksplosionerne lød stadig fra hendes fars forbudte kontor. Han ville ikke opdage, at hun var væk.I et kort sekund stod hun med bankende hjerte foran hoveddøren. Sveden fra mareridtet havde gjort hende kold på ryggen.Hun tog en dyb indånding, trykkede håndtaget ned og satte kursen mod det tryggeste sted, hun kendte, Kastanjeskoven.En sen aften flygter 10-årige Elara fra sine mareridt og sin selvoptagede far. I Kastanjeskoven møder hun en gammel dame ved navn Inga, der beder Elara om at passe på en grankogle med ordene: “Mit liv afhænger af det. Ikke kun mit liv – manges liv! Måske vores allesammens!”Pludselig er Kastanjeskoven slet ikke kun det trygge sted, Elara kender. Hendes søgen efter vejen hjem forvandles til en vild rejse, hvor hun møder talende dyr, besynderlige væsner, mørke hemmeligheder og et utal af farer.Om forfatterMalou Slott er fantasyforfatter og historiefortæller. Siden Malou var barn, har fantasien fået frit løb og fyldt hendes hverdag, og der kan drages klare paralleller mellem den verden, Elara pludselig befinder sig i, og den verden, Malou som barn var sikker på fandtes i skoven. Malou Slott har selv illustreret bogen for at videregive sin fortælling med lige så stor livagtighed, som hun selv oplevede den.

Determined, Elara jumped out of bed and put on her clothes. She grabbed her phone, opened the glass door leading into the kitchen and tiptoed to the hallway. Swear words and explosions still sounded from her father’s forbidden office. He wouldn’t notice her being gone. For a brief second, she stood in front of the door with a pounding heart. The sweat from the nightmare had turned her back cold. She took a deep breath, pulled down the handle and continued towards the safest place that she knew – the Chestnut Woods. Late one night, 10-year-old Elara fled from her nightmares and her self-absorbed father. In the Chestnut Woods she stumbled upon an old lady, Inga, who asked Elara to protect what seems to be an ordinary pinecone, with the words: ‘My life is depending on it. Not just my life – a lot of people’s lives! Maybe even all of our lives!’ Suddenly, the Chestnut Woods was not just the safe place that Elara knew. Meaning that her quest to find her way back home will turn into a wild journey; encountering talking animals, peculiar creatures, dark secrets and countless dangers. About the authorMalou Slott is the author behind Moon Child & The Secret of the Pinecone. As a child Malou believed that there was a magical world in the woods close to her home. Her clear memory about that time, has formed to a story that naturally grew out of her imagination and down on paper.