#WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Lost Ones

Posted on by Nanette McGuinness
Yellow writing on a red sky with a red sun in the background. In the foreground, two dark two-story houses with red windows, trees, and a gray street with a horse and single-person carriage in the foreground.

Mika is back! She stars in the award-laden Moonwind Mysteries, a gripping upper MG/YA historical series set in 1880s Sweden. The first two books in the series, The Night Raven and The Queen of Thieves, were filled with suspense, gritty details, fast pacing, and vivid  characters, including the city of Stockholm, which becomes a tangible … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: The Lost Ones

#WorldKidLit Wednesday: Wonderful Feels Like This

Posted on by Nanette McGuinness

Writing fiction about music can be tricky. Music is sound in time; it speaks to our brains at a pre-verbal level. As a result, using words to describe music can be hard and the literature is littered with near-misses. So it’s a great pleasure as a musician to read a well-written novel centered around music … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Wonderful Feels Like This