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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:32:18 -0500
Jim, thanks so much for sharing this fascinating bit of history concerning "A Wrinkle in Time." I counted it as one of my favorite childhood books and when I reread it as an adult, I couldn't believe I understood any of it as a child. I'm pretty sure any religious meaning went right over my head, and it probably continues to do so for contemporary child readers.
I also read both "A Small Rain" and "And Both Were Young" later in life. To me, the latter seems more like the former in tone and substance than any of L'Engle's later children's fiction, such as the Austin family series. Perhaps she always thought of it more as one of her adult books than one of her children's books. Also, as I recall, there's no family connection among any of the characters in her first two books and her later fiction, something she seemed to become rather obsessed with later in her career. (Remember those elaborate family trees?)
KT
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 horning at education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Fri 25 Jul 2008 01:32:18 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:32:18 -0500
Jim, thanks so much for sharing this fascinating bit of history concerning "A Wrinkle in Time." I counted it as one of my favorite childhood books and when I reread it as an adult, I couldn't believe I understood any of it as a child. I'm pretty sure any religious meaning went right over my head, and it probably continues to do so for contemporary child readers.
I also read both "A Small Rain" and "And Both Were Young" later in life. To me, the latter seems more like the former in tone and substance than any of L'Engle's later children's fiction, such as the Austin family series. Perhaps she always thought of it more as one of her adult books than one of her children's books. Also, as I recall, there's no family connection among any of the characters in her first two books and her later fiction, something she seemed to become rather obsessed with later in her career. (Remember those elaborate family trees?)
KT
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608-263-3721 Fax: 608-262-4933 horning at education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Fri 25 Jul 2008 01:32:18 PM CDT
