{"id":13127,"date":"2012-08-15T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2012-09-08T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T02:46:00","slug":"4-childrens-novelist-madeleine-lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=13127","title":{"rendered":"#4 Children’s Novelist – Madeleine L’Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today School Library Journal released a gorgeous full-color pdf version of Betsy Bird’s Top 100 Children’s Novels Poll<\/a>. I’m terribly proud that my name appears for my help tallying the numbers and also in some quotes about the books. This seemed like a good reason to post another of the Top 100 Authors.<\/p>\n

#4 Children’s Novelist: Madeleine L’Engle, 317 points, 45 votes<\/p>\n

Now, this isn’t a big surprise, since Madeleine L’Engle’s book, A Wrinkle in Time<\/em>, was the #2 Children’s Novel, with 307 points.<\/p>\n

I admit I was a bit surprised that the one other book which was mentioned was Many Waters<\/em>, with a first place vote for 10 points, and the words, “My favorite of hers…I think I loved the way she embellished a story I already knew (Noah and the ark), particularly including female characters that don’t show up in the Biblical narrative except as sidenotes.” — Libby Gorman<\/p>\n

Now, my personal favorite Madeleine L’Engle book is probably A Ring of Endless Light<\/em>, but that wasn’t mentioned at all. I find I haven’t reread too many of her books since I started writing Sonderbooks, but there’s a lovely range of titles. I will have to remedy that. It turns out that I have read and reviewed a lot of her nonfiction for adults. So just for fun, I’ll post links to those here.<\/p>\n

Here’s Betsy’s post about A Wrinkle in Time.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s my most recent review of the audio version<\/a>, read by the author herself.
\nHere’s my 2001 review of A Wrinkle in Time<\/em><\/a>, posted in my third issue of Sonderbooks when it was still an e-mail newsletter.<\/p>\n

And here are her other books I’ve reviewed:
\nThe Joys of Love<\/a>
\n\tWalking on Water<\/a>
\n\tA Circle of Quiet<\/a>
\n\tThe Summer of the Great-grandmother<\/a>
\n\tThe Irrational Season<\/a>
\n\tGlimpses of Grace<\/a>
\n\tMadeleine L’Engle, Herself<\/a>
<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s definitely high time I reread some of her others.<\/p>\n

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