It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of … Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
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The first time I came in contact with this amazing story is when my 6th grade teacher read it to me many, MANY years ago. I’ve since read it a couple more times and have read the other books in the series. Awesome stories that bring back the nostalgia of childhood. I highly recommend this book. I loved it as a tween and still love it into “older” …
This book was never assigned to me in school, so I am reading it for the first time as a middle aged woman with three kids of her own. That did not affect my enjoyment of the story. In fact, perhaps I was able to enjoy it even more than I would have if I had been ‘forced’ to read it.
To begin with, Meg is a very easy character to relate with. …
I loved reading this book, it was so well written and it kept my interest, page tuner.
Sure, you may think this children’s literature, but I think it has a lot to offer an adult reader. Madeline L’Engle does not write down to children. She has an eminently readable and engaging style. This is my blanket book.
One of my favorite books when I was a kid was A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine l’Engle. It’s such a strange and wonderful book. I love Meg and Calvin and Charles Wallace! Meg is so easy to empathize with as a preteen; she has braces and thick glasses, is very bright but is bearing the burden of a missing father in a small town… Then the adventure …
What’s a book I loved as a child? This one! I read it so many times – and I still love to read it. Misfits being the heroes. Love conquering all. What’s not to love?
A long, long time ago, I grew up deep in the country in a household with a bible and a thin scattering of history books. Not a single book of fiction in the house. I made it to 4th grade barely able to read. (Phonics was my friend.) Then, a brilliant teacher took a walk on the wild side, pointed me to the school library copy of this book, and …
Teaching complex science concepts isn’t the only difference in Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time. She also teaches the power of Love in an adventure story where two children go off planet with a friend and three non-earthlings — Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which — to rescue their father.
This is one of my all-time favorites. An incredibly deep yet deceptively simple story, it reveals profound truths about love and family and philosophical concepts of truth and power, all couched in a “children’s” story. I reread it (and its series of sequels) every few years and it never loses the magic I felt when I first read it as a kid…
I liked the idea of a different dimension and traveling through, also waiting for the unknown. I think this book helped me to escape and explore my own mind, which in turn gave me a better imagination to write my books.
This was one of my favorite books as a girl. The main character appealed a lot to me personally, but I think that anyone who’s just a little bit off and a little bit stubborn can identify with Meg. I read this book so many times that it’s almost ingrained as part of my identity now and it’s hard to know what parts to recommend without just writing …
I still love this. I cry every time I read it. Possibly because like Meg I have a younger brother but the whole thing is magic.
An amazing story that truly touches you. I loved Meg, whose emotions filled her up and leaked out of the pages of this book. My heart broke for her. A Wrinkle in Time belongs in a class all its own. I could read this book over and over again and never tire of it.
How I love this book. I’m so glad that Madeleine L’Engle has written so many beautiful, whimsical, deep books for kids and adults to enjoy.
I enjoyed this book growing up, but it seems a little confusing now. The plot is a somewhat convoluted- I suppose that “love winning out” seems overdone, but the concepts in the series were still way ahead of their time. “Tessering” is a pretty advanced idea when you consider when the book was written. The characters are well drawn and the …
Thanks to my 4th grade teacher encouraging me to read this book, it became one of my absolute favorites as a kid!
The book that made me want to be a writer. How much greater a recommendation could I give?
This is a wonderful story that is full of imagination, and is inspirational by showing the main character Meg, how to believe in herself, and being different is okay.
I wanted to re-read this book before I got to see the movie I remember it from when I was a child having read it just after it was published in the very early 1960s however I didn’t realize that it had a lot to do with not only the strong bond between a girl and her dad but also about things like quantum physics which I didn’t even know was a …
I never read A Wrinkle in Time as a child and realize I missed out on a great story. It was a quick read but I was swept up with Meg, Charles and Calvin on their adventure. Love really does conquer all! I bet this will be an amazing movie!