Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time: Literature Guide

Pros: A brilliant new world
Cons: Ummm...none

I read a Wrinkle In Time waaay back in jr. high. Before that time I despised reading. It seemed a complete waste of time to sit so still with nothing but a book setting before my eyes. This book helped to change my mind.

When you read A...

Pros: Fantastical and compelling
Cons: Emphasis on Christianity

there was Charles Wallace and his sister Meg travelling in weird and wonderful ways with wild and wonderful characters. A Wrinkle in Time has only the best things about fiction for young adults: imagination, family values, love, original ideas, new...

Pros: The best children's book with the exception of A Bridge to Terebithia.
Cons: Ha!

There is an in-betweenness to books, an outside-of-timeness. They are forever. There is no real past tense for good books. There is no surging, no lemming-leap, over the precipice, and down, down, down, into the oblivion of forgetfulness. They are...

Pros: Unlike anything else young children are reading
Cons: I can't think of any

As a young girl, I stumbled upon this book and fell in love. I can't tell you the number of times I read it. Then, about 10 years ago, while in a bookstore, I decided to see if I could find it. I not only found the book, but several more in the...

Pros: Well written, teaches good values, makes readers evaluate beliefs
Cons: not long enough

This book as well as the rest of the set by Madelene L. Ingall is the finest writing of science fiction I have found. You will find these books
in the public grade schools and Jr. High schools but don't let that discourage you from reading them....

Pros: Spiritual seeds.
Cons: If you read this novel too quickly you may miss the deeper meaning.

A Wrinkle in time was one of my favorite stories when I was a young boy. I was growing up as a Catholic in a private school, and every day I was exposed to opinions about God. We read this story at my school, and it had a lasting...

Pros: Simple but very powerful story, one all people can relate to
Cons: A little too brief, might leave some wanting more.

When I began reading “A Wrinkle in Time”, I read with an odd sense of child-like wonder, almost as if I was 6 years old again. When I was young, my mother read this book to my brother and me. I didn't remember a thing about the book, except the title ...

Pros: Excellent children's literature...
Cons: Subject to parental discretion...

Madeleine L'Engle had either the Radical Right, the Liberal Left, or some coagulative parents' group slam her for this, and I'm still trying to figure why. This novel was a spiritual experience for me, quite possibly due to the fact I had joined the...

Pros: It got my daughter to enjoy reading
Cons: I honestly can't think of any

I first discovered this book when I was a pre-teen. I do not remember the circumstances, but I immediately fell in love with it. Up until that point, I hated to read, but suddenly I could not get enough. I made my mom check it out from the library so...

Pros: great plot, good characters, believable emotional toil in characters, whets your appetite for the rest of the quartet
Cons: does not explain details well, somewhat predictable in areas

This story about a young girl trying to live with being different and having two parents who are geniuses, but whose father has disappeared several years before, is a wonderful story. It truly introduces young teenagers to the world of sci-fi, time and...

Pros: great timeless characters
Cons: zero

When I picked up this book I expected to find a time travel, science fiction type adventure. Yup, it was that, but it was also a great deal more. A Wrinkle in Time is a book that teaches life lessons within the context of the aforementioned time travel,...

Pros: Great plot, characters, interesting idea.
Cons: nothing!

Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time", is a very good book for young readers. I myself read it about 4 years ago when I was in 6th grade and I was absolutely enthralled with it. L'Engle does a very good job of capturing the essence of...

Pros: Great book, unforgettable characters, classic
Cons: none as far as I can see

I first read A Wrinkle in Time on the demand of my French tutor, whom I adored. She gave me a list of her favorite books from when she was my age, (at the time she was a senior in High School) as we often exchanged ideas on books we'd read, both being...

Pros: Characters are great, Story never losses interest
Cons: You'll see

The story line for this book is just simply amazing. The author never loses sight of the important details in the book. This book is great for people of all ages. It will make you want to never stop reading. The characters in the book are full of...

Pros: plot, "realistic" fantasy, interesting
Cons: ???

I originally read "A Wrinkle in Time" about 12 years ago, back in fourth grade. Ever since then, it was been one of my favorite books. The adventures of Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace in some other solar system are as fascinating today as...