Molly Moon is a small girl who has the talent of a hypnotist. She is the heroine of the eponymous book by the English writer Georgia Byng. The main idea of the Molly Moon book was suggested by an incident that happened with Paddy—the writer’s dog. Georgia was having tea and noticed that the dog was staring intently at the cake she was holding in her hands. She began teasing Paddy by moving the cake in front of his nose.
At that moment she realized that even an animal can be hypnotized. And what if a child wants to hypnotize an adult? That is how the idea was born of a girl who used her hypnotic abilities to escape a miserable orphanage, get to New York, find her friend, and become a star of a musical…