A review by drlark
Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

 A delightful middle grade quest fantasy that centers family bonds and music. I'm pretty sure I read this series back in middle school, and I've been wanting get back to Diana Wynne Jones's writing. When I saw this series bind-up at the library book sale, I grabbed it. The writing is lovely, the humor is charming as heck, and the politics are suitably interesting to an adult audience, too, I think, as we follow Moril and his family of traveling musicians on their way back North from time spent performing in the South. On the way, they encounter danger and tragedy and also discover their own power. Good stuff. Onto book two!