Today, I had a flashback to a book called The Wind On The Moon by author Eric Linklater, published in 1944. The story holds up to this day and is one of my favourtie ones from my adolescent.

It's a fantastical story, where the two main characters the sisters Dinah and Dorinda turn into kangaroos - amongst other things! It's such an entertaining and gripping story. Earlier in the story they eat themselves to a point of being rolled down the street like big balls, by their mother. Then being mistaken as balloons by the other children in the village and attacked with pushpins - when they try to pop the "balloons". They also mess with a judge putting rotting fish in his house trying to convince him that him not changing his opinion in a case has made him stink.