I’m not sure about you, but I don’t think I’ve ever been quite so … let’s say nonplussed as by the first two Harry Potter movies. What we will be talking about is how Larson adapted the source material into a unique offering. Given that the original Newbery Medal-winning book is fifty years old, and given the entirely valid assumption that anybody that loves comics will likely have read AWIT, this review is not going to follow the usual approaches - plot and story will be freely discussed, no spoiler warnings will be given, and one may safely conclude that AWIT:TGN will fall squarely in the Required Reading category upon its release in October. I couldn’t imagine a better mix of talents two and a half years ago, and now that I’ve got my hands on a copy², I am more impressed than ever. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time.Understand that it was more than 30 years since I’d read A Wrinkle In Time when Hope Larson¹ announced that Madeleine L’Engle’s literary executors had asked her to adapt the classic book into a graphic novel. It is the first book in The Time Quintet, which consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.Ī Wrinkle in Time is now a movie from Disney, directed by Ava DuVernay, starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.Ī Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.Ī Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal. 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). To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."Ī tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them.
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. Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture.
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