In my awkward adolescent years, directly following my classics-only phase (
A Clockwork Orange isn't suitable for 8-year-old girls? Pshaw!), I went through a period of reading ONLY from the Young Adult Science Fiction/Fantasy shelf at the severely limited Air Force Base library. After wading through a good amount of terrible-awful, I found Madeleine L'Engle's
A Wrinkle in Time. I didn't know anything about it when I pulled it off the shelf, and I don't know what persuaded me to take it home.
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| Must have been the alluring cover design |
But, like so many generations of readers before and after me, I was immediately entranced. And I will ALWAYS equate this book with the rare feeling of being 100% captured by a story . . . maybe for the first time (it's possible
The Boxcar Children series got to me first).
This year marks the 50th anniversary of this crazy-pants book, and it's also the year it will be released as a graphic novel, custom tailored for consumption by a whole new generation of Meg Murrys, Charles Wallaces, and Calvin O'Keefes.
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| Coming in October! |
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| Adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. |
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| First glimpse of Meg Murry. |
More? Here, have this
New York Times article about how Meg Murry bridged the gap between young female readers and the male-dominated sci-fi genre.
