{"id":924,"date":"2009-11-26T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2010-02-17T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:41:00","slug":"review-of-a-wrinkle-in-time-audiobook-performed-by-madeleine-lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Wrinkle in Time Audiobook, Performed by Madeleine L’Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wrinkle_in_time_audio\"A Wrinkle in Time<\/em><\/p>\n

by Madeleine L’Engle<\/p>\n

Performance by the Author<\/p>\n

Listening Library (Random House), An Unabridged Production on 5 compact discs, 5 hours, 17 minutes.
\nText copyright 1962, performance copyright 1993 Tesser Tracks, Inc.
\nNewbery Medal Winner 1963.
\nStarred Review
\nSonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: Wonderful Rereads<\/p>\n

In the online Newbery Medal class I took, we were all asked what was our favorite Newbery Medal winner, and no book was mentioned more than Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.<\/em> (For me, it’s second only to The Hero and the Crown.<\/em>) Imagine my delight as I was taking the class when I discovered that our library had a version of the book on CD read by the author herself!<\/p>\n

Madeleine L’Engle spent some time in the theater, and she’s not a bad reader at all, besides knowing how she meant certain things to be pronounced. I wrote a review of A Wrinkle in Time<\/em><\/a> way back when I first started writing Sonderbooks, in August 2001, in only my third “issue.” I find it amusing that I complained that it was hard to read it aloud because I couldn’t figure out how to read Mrs Which. Because when I listened to this production, and Mrs Which’s voice was done with a reverberating echo, I immediately thought, “Oh! That’s <\/em>how she meant it to be read!” (I also thought it was a little unfair, because you can’t add that when you read it aloud to your own kids without special equipment!)<\/p>\n

Listening to Madeleine L’Engle read the book herself was like hearing a friend coming back from the grave to tell a story, and a warm and loving story. Madeleine expresses all Meg’s peevishness in her voice. She’s an imperfect, flawed kid — but she saves the day.<\/p>\n

Listening to A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> inspired me afresh. I may have to purchase my own copy and make a new tradition of not only reading A Wrinkle in Time <\/em>every few years, as I used to do, but now listening to it every few years, read to me by Madeleine L’Engle herself.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on Sonderbooks<\/a> at: www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/wrinkle_in_time_audio.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Performance by the Author Listening Library (Random House), An Unabridged Production on 5 compact discs, 5 hours, 17 minutes. Text copyright 1962, performance copyright 1993 Tesser Tracks, Inc. Newbery Medal Winner 1963. Starred Review Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: Wonderful Rereads In the online Newbery Medal class I took, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,10,9,16,18,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy","category-old-favorites","category-science-fiction","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}