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> Tag: Madeleine L'Engle
Cover for the book Troubling a Star by Madeline L'Engle

Revisiting an Old Favorite

Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle

October 15, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

Vicky Austen is stuck on an iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean.  How a sixteen year old from New England ended up there unfolds as Vicky relates events.  Having spent a year in New York City, Vicky and her family returned to their home town, and Vicky feels out of place.  Her older brother John is off at college, and her younger siblings don’t seem to have any trouble fitting back into their old lives.  She has two years before she’s off to college, but until […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Madeleine L'Engle

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: cbr15bingo, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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Two birds and a star

A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L'Engle and the Making of a Wrinkle in Time by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams

Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross (Friendship Books for Kids, Kids Book about Fear) by Samantha Haas

The Penguin of Ilha Grande: From Animal Rescue to Extraordinary Friendship by Shannon Earle.

August 1, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I enjoy a good picture book round up. I wanted to include a theme, it could have been, I read all these books online, but decided two birds and a star, was in my (not so) humble opinion, a great theme. Why am I so not-humble? Well, one should stand up for what they believe, be strong in their opinions Like Madeleine L’Engle was. And we see that in A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L’Engle and the Making of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adelina Lirius, animals, birds, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams, Española Island, Galapagos, Jennifer Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Renato Alarcao, Rosie Eve, Samantha Haas, Science & Nature, Shannon Earle, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:566 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction · Tags: Adelina Lirius, animals, birds, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams, Española Island, Galapagos, Jennifer Adams, Madeleine L'Engle, Renato Alarcao, Rosie Eve, Samantha Haas, Science & Nature, Shannon Earle, Social Themes ·
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My Favorite Childhood Book

Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

January 10, 2022 by sabian30 2 Comments

As a Christmas present, my kids (instigated by Bothari43) got me a subscription to Storyworth. They send you a writing prompt every week and this week was Your Favorite Book as a Child. At the end of the year, they publish your answers in your memoir. Cool. This week’s question was a hard one because I’m torn between the original Oz books (all 14 written by L. Frank Baum!) which transported me away from the wet rainforest of western Washington into strange and mind-expanding places. […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Best childhood book, Madeleine L'Engle

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Best childhood book, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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A classic

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

The first time I heard of this book was fifth grade. It was one of the choices for our book reports. I think I didn’t read it because it was about a girl. Boy, was I dumb. I saw the movie when it came out but I didn’t read it for myself until this year. Three things struck me about it. First, was that the author did not pull punches with her vocabulary. I read later that she did not consider it to be “just […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy Tagged With: Madeleine L'Engle

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy · Tags: Madeleine L'Engle ·
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Wild nights are my glory

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

January 25, 2019 by Moonlight Reader Leave a Comment

This was a reread – I first read A Wrinkle in Time as a girl, and read it again as an adult four years ago. I decided to reread A Wrinkle in Time again because I am also going to reread the remainder of the Murry/O’Keefe series and I am one of those people who needs to begin at the beginning. Even after all these years, I remain in awe of Madeleine L’Engle’s extraordinary humanity. She was a remarkable woman, and I’m not sure that […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Madeleine L'Engle

Moonlight Reader's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Madeleine L'Engle ·
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You can’t go home again

May 28, 2018 by Dusty Highway 1 Comment

I still remember watching E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in the theater as a kid. The nearest movie theater was an hour’s drive from our little town in the Deep Midwest, so we didn’t get to go more than a few times a year. I’d been begging my parents to take us to see E.T. for weeks when they finally surprised me for my 8th birthday. I was enchanted from the start, so wrapped up in the story by the time Eliot said goodbye to E.T. that […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #CBR10, A Wrinkle in Time, children's book, fantasy, Fiction, fundamentalist christianity, Madeleine L'Engle, Religion, space travel

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:29 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #CBR10, A Wrinkle in Time, children's book, fantasy, Fiction, fundamentalist christianity, Madeleine L'Engle, Religion, space travel ·
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