A Wrinkle In Time Book Back Cover

Laurel leaf fantasy which published mass market paperbacks directed at people buying their own copies with their pocket change or through their scholastic book club orders the covers appealing more to older readers and yearling which published heavier duty trade paperbacks for classroom use directed at younger ones or appealing to the adults who would make it.

A wrinkle in time book back cover. In geometry the tesseract is a four dimensional analog representation of a cube. L engle received tons of rejection letters for her book which many editors thought was not a children s book. While meg focuses on her unhappiness at her father s absence and her problems at school calvin must remind her how lucky she is to have a family like hers in which there is so much love. This is also a problem for her younger brother charles wallace everyone thinks he is dumb though both children are extraordinarily intelligent indeed charles wallace.

A wrinkle in time won the newbery award in 1963. I won t be able to cover them all here but here are a few of my favorites least favorites and some fun translations that get way way more to the point than a lot of the english language editions the opposite of say the hunger games. A wrinkle in time is a young adult novel written by american author madeleine l engle first published in 1962 the book has won the newbery medal the sequoyah book award the lewis carroll shelf award and was runner up for the hans christian andersen award. A wrinkle in time has a famous opening line it was a dark and stormy night this line was first used by english author edward bulwer lytton in his 1830 novel paul clifford.

Of course a wrinkle in time is 1 a classic and 2 almost as old as my mother so it s been through a lot of cover redesigns. Student includes 3 4 sentences describing the book on the back of the cover. A wrinkle in time was rejected by dozens of publishers many of whom thought the plotline was too complex for children. Dell handled the paperback editions of a wrinkle in time for many years putting it out through two different imprints.

A wrinkle in time is the first in a series of four book that follow the adventures of meg murry and calvin o keefe. That s why i still have the copy of a wrinkle in time that was given to me when i was twelve years old. The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger print and as universal as an open hand. The book cover is complete and has all the required elements but it has little detail and some portions look messy or have little effort.

The book begins by relating meg s personal struggles at school and her inability to fit in with the crowd. Tesseract is not a fiction term. The book had the top pages tinted a lime green to complement the dark blue cover. For 3 25 i bought my first book and this original edition of a wrinkle in time was beautiful.

The main characters meg murry charles wallace murry and calvin o keefe embark on a journey through space and time from universe. A wrinkle in time cover project.