Madeleine L'Engle is one of my all time favorite authors. Both her characters and storylines are thoughtful, well written and intriguing. She writes books that I can read again and again. These particular novels are some of my absolute favorites and I have enjoyed them both as a written books and as an audios.

I have to admit I've only read the first two. Although these books are apparently meant for grade school level, I find it hard to believe kids that young would ever be able to understand L'Engle's fourth dimension POV. I would like to read the last two in the series, but I think I may have given these books away...

Regardless, these books would make AMAZING movies if done in a non-cheesy manner.

I can't tell you what these books have meant to me. And they're still so important. I love L'Engle's subject matter, even though her characters get stiff and erudite. Everyone talks like a Harvard humanities professor, whether 6y.o. or 60. Even so, she is one of my favorite authors.

These have always been favorites. Wonderful character development and description. I still have such clear pictures of many of the scenes in my head. If I reread them now, I'm sure I'd get some deeper meaning out of them (I hope) but in middle school I was much simpler and just liked it for the surface story. Good enough for me!

These happened the summer of my 6th grade year. My brother signed me up for a library reading contest - I had to read 100 books! It was worth it, and these were the highlight. My favorite ride of all literature.

I adored a Wrinkle in time. It's one of my all time favorites, but I feel like the series slowly deteriorated from there. I liked A Wind in the Door, but I didn't love it quite as much. Quite frankly, I fell asleep reading a Swiftly Tilting Planet. I only made it halfway through the last book. I missed the interactions between Meg and Calvin in the last 2 books. They were my favorites. And it was weird to jump from being in school to being married and pregnant. It wasn't as fun to read. My friend didn't even want to read the last 2 books when I told her that Meg was married and pregnant in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. It was too much of a jump for me. If there was a book in between the 2nd and 3rd filling in the gaps, I think I would've been happier. Plus the 3rd book was just plain boring and hard to follow, especially if you're 12. I had to force myself to finish it.

Alas, I did not love the other novels as much as the first. And the deleted sections of A Wrinkle in Time would not have improved it, I fear. Of the additional materials, I liked best the essay on fantasy and science fiction (her remarks on receiving the Newbery Award).

At least two of these ("A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet") are BOTH on my 10-TEN, ALL-TIME FAVORITES list, and I consider "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" one of those rare volumes that touched my soul and left me a better person for having read it.

I do have to admit, however, that we re-read the trilogy with our children, discovered "Many Waters," and did not enjoy it as we had the first three. It is one of only a handful of books I have never finished reading.

Another series I loved reading as a young child. I think it will continue to be an interest to future generations of children, even if it has to be on a tablet device for them to even consider looking at it lol

These books make me sad to know what kids are reading today. Very few "children's books" quote Euripides, Goethe, and include sayings in Portuguese or Welsh. These stories (A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which is my favorite, in particular) are largely responsible for the shaping of my imagination as far as time-travel, space, and the interplay between parts of history is concerned. And I always forget how beautifully anti-war they are. I also love how L'Engle weaves significant matters of faith into each story, and as a kid this definitely helped me understand that you didn't have to exclude God/faith from Fantasy/Sci-Fi. The only real complaint I have is that they all end rather abruptly, A Wrinkle in Time especially.

I read these books when I was younger and loved them!

"Wrinkle" is the most famous, and it certainly grabbed me as a kid--I can remember struggling through at least one hellish day of school, waiting to get home and find out what happened next. But the one I reread most often is "Planet," and I really couldn't say why. The themes in all the books of the series are similar--like Dumbledore, L'Engle believes firmly in the awesome and transformative power of love...Maybe I just really dug the time travel.