Characters
11 year-old stubborn boy who loves sweets and sometimes acts before he thinks
Who is Edmund Pearce?
This is where our story begins.
Where is the grandmother’s home in London?
Edmunds prized possession: brought from London and saved for special moments to cheer him up. They were stolen by Simon and Jack shortly after he began staying with them.
What are Dairy Milk Bars?
A hawkish woman, who wears a suit the color of a stagnant pond. She is in charge of finding homes for the evacuated children. She is strict, harsh, and quick to believe negative rumors about the children.
Who is Miss Carr?
A name for a place to stay
What is a billet?
9 year-old girl who is kind, sensitive, and loves books
Who is Anna Pearce?
This is the only place the children had ever experienced proper family love. The kind of warmth and affection and certainty in the knowledge that one hung the moon.
What is the children's love for each other and the world/ feelings imagined inside the world of books?
A movie that the children viewed with their classsmates. Edmund found the history story told on the ride there most interesting. Anna enjoyed the movie. William had an uncomfortable encounter with Frances.
What is Pinocchio?
Slight woman, who wears elaborately flowered clothing and bright pink lipstick. She very much wanted to host a girl but when Anna insisted on staying with her brothers, she convinced her husband, a man of few words to agree to host all three children.
Who is Nellie Forrester?
Someone who loves, or is obsessed with reading books.
Who is a bibliophile?
12- year old boy who is responsible, serious, and patient
Who is William Pearce?
Edmund's storybook parents.
Who was a father who is a cowboy in the Wild West. He also did pirating, swashbuckling and a mother who was the greatest cook this side of the Rio Grande. She served chocolate cake for breakfast, allowed him his own horse and rifle?
This is the dead animal that Edmund placed in the twin’s bed after feeling overwhelmed by the sense of injustice with their awful behavior. This was a turning point in the story and in their stay with the Forresters.
What is a snake?
Twin boys who start off as mischievous but become increasing more cruel as they steal Edmund’s sweets, they accuse them of vandalism. Their parents host William, Anna, and Edmund but they are not hospitable.
Who are Simon and Jack Forrester?
This was a negative slur used for the children who were evacuated from London and sought shelter with host families.
What is a Vackie?
The house-keeper who stays in contact with the children via letters after moving out of the house to live with her sister. At the beginning of the story, Anna asks her to be their mother but she replies that she is too old.
Who is Mrs. Collins?
William's storybook parents.
Who were reliable parents who only expected him to be responsible to keeping his room clean, doing well in school, and being polite. Specifically, a mother who served poached eggs and buttered toast if he was sick in bed.
The day after London was bombed and Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, the mood was very solemn. The boys at school spent recess making a trap for this person after hearing the adults around them all speak about the part they were playing in the war efforts.
Who is Hitler?
She lives at Livingston Lane with her four young children. Her husband is away at war, she is a hardened woman left with little money and lots of work.
Who is Mrs. Griffith?
Negative slur for the Germans used by the English during WW2
What are Jerries?
The solicitor (lawyer) who is responsible for managing the money left to the children from their parents and grandmother. He proposes that they evacuate London with the other school aged children and look for a permanent family among those who are temporarily housing the evacuees.
Who is Mr. Engersoll?
Anna storybook mother.
Who was a kind mother, who liked to hold her while reading aloud to her. She was there with a good hug when needed.
This is what Mrs. Muller did when the children were unable to have their new billeted parent vouch for them at the lending library. It is also a foreshadowing of things to come!
What is vouch for the children herself?
Who is Mrs. Muller?
A special phrase that William commonly quotes to describe how the children’s deceased parents felt about them. It refers to the unconditional love and admiration one can feel toward another. He also uses this phrase to describe the Forrester’s love for their children and this bothers Anna greatly.
What is to Hang the Moon?