Miranda and Starlight (The Starlight Books, 1)

Award-winning author Janet Muirhead Hil brings a heart full of love to these books, conveying her deep affection and concern for children and her experience and connection with horses. Having grown up on a ranch in the Yampa River Valley in the Colorado Rockies, she has long held a love and respect for horses more than any other animal. It is no stretch for her imagination to write a story about a girl who wants a horse of her own more than anything else in the world. That was Janet’s own experience throughout her childhood and youth. Over the years her wishes came true many times as horses have played a large part in her life. Writing stories has been another dream and passion for Janet, one she has pursued and seen to fruition. She has five books published and several more written and soon to be published. Though not the first books she has written, the Starlight books were the first to be published.Miranda and Starlight, is just the first of the Starlight series and is on it's second printing. The revised/second edition of Miranda and Starlight which won a Notable award from Writer's Notes Magazine, has corrected typos and improved wording as well as four new line drawings by Pat Lehmkuhl. Starlight's Courage, Starlight Star Bright, follow in the series, with Starlight's Shooting Star fourth. Starlight Shines for Miranda, book five, won USA Book News Best Books 2004 award for Young Adults. The dramatic conclusion to the series, Starlight Comes Home, arrives in time for Christmas this year. (2004) Janet now adds screenwriter to her credentials, as she adapts the first two books of The Starlight Series into script, as they are in development for major motion picture release. There is a film trilogy planned, based upon all six books in the series.Janet Muirhead Hill is the author of 'Miranda and Starlight (The Starlight Books, 1)' with ISBN 9780971416109 and ISBN 0971416109.