Whilst most Children’s Books fall into tropes of fantasy – all well and good – or tailor specifically to one culture (to balance what authors/publishing companies perceive as an imbalanced shelf), the series The Children of Lost Things Found focuses on telling a story and imparting a virtue.  Each story and every lesson has contemporary significance using history, a call to action, and cultural respect.

Each book of the series follows a group of children seeking to return traits – such as goodness, honesty, truth, etcetera – to a world, our world, that seems to have lost them.  The children are sent backward and forward in time to events and peoples who personify these traits.

The Children of Lost Things Found gives readers of all backgrounds insight into other cultures, traditions, religions, and histories they might not ordinarily have an opportunity to understand.  In the end, we want everyone to learn that talking to, and working with, the person across from you is always better than looking down at, or relying on, a screen.

The Children of Lost Things Found

In "The Last Urumi", our trio of heroes - Artie, Olesea, and Priya - live through the catastrophic event of a "screen-out" all across the globe; then, they are sent back in time and to India by a mysterious god-like figure of myth and legend, to retrieve a virtue their present world has lost.

Book #1: The Last Urumi