My mom read these to me out loud when I was a kid. I have great memories of me and my siblings all piled around listening to a chapter before bed.

Many Waters was quite good considering how difficult it must have been to write. Maybe it wasn't difficult to write for L'Engle, to be fair, but I found myself constantly thinking about how hard it would have been to try and avoid any claim of blasphemy. I found myself wanting more from it, but again, due to the nature of the story, it's difficult to expect more when a standard has already been set. I still think my favorite book out of the four was A Swiftly Tilting Planet, but I enjoyed rereading all of these stories more than I expected to!

such a good series

I read "A Wrinkle In Time" as a library clerk in the children's department when it first came out and loved it. Bought this edition for my grandson and monopolized his book when I visited his home a month after sending it to him. Loved every minute. I love Science Fiction and this is excellent for the genre. I am intrigued by the fourth book, Many Waters, and its apocryphal references. Interesting interpretation.

I loved Wrinkle when i was a kid. In reference to L'Engle's overtly Christian themes, upon rereading, i did not find them overwhelming. Instead i found them more as guild lines to deducing the your own spiritual interpretation, which i did and found it to be very enlightening. I felt the same about A Wind in the Door, and even enjoyed it more so than Wrinkle. A Swiftly Tilting Planet was just as good as the second, I only wish there were more about these characters. I plan on reading Many Waters, even though its about the twins as apposed to the character base i love.

Most favorite books of all-time right here, with the last book being my favorite. I’ve read these umpteen times, and every time it gets better.

L'Engle was an odd but creative author. When reading her, I often find myself asking whether I agree with her; but she gives me things to think about, and imaginative stories to muse over.

This is the series that started it all for me. I was in 5th grade and hated reading, but then we had the choice of reading either A Wrinkle in Time or the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. Out of 3 classes of students reading only 5 of us chose Wrinkle because we were told it was hard to read. Apparently they were quite convincing, which makes me think they didn't like the book. It wasn't easy, but I felt special being in the small group and I was determined to succeed. I really liked the book. I also really liked the rest of the series, although some were a little odd. Then I had the pleasure of teaching this book in 6th grade and I made my students listen to the tapes every year for the whole book. Pure bliss! Anyhow, I thought I'd share a little background about the book that sparked my love for reading.

I have finally finished the series that many kids in this country grew up on. But being 26 didn't negate the fact that I really loved this series. I didn't rate all the books a five, and I was constantly annoyed with her random writing style (look who's talking...), and there were times I was confused as to who was who and when (not where) we were. But they were truly amazing. Especially the last two. I guess Many Waters was never a part of the original trilogy, and chronologically, it actually happens before A Swiftly Tilting Planet. For actual reviews, see each book individually on my bookshelf.

I will say this though. There are so many wonderful Christian truths in these books, and characters that are real. They actually struggle, or get frusterated, or chose sin because it's easy, and deny the truth because it's not logical. And I like that, but she always brings it back to God's Word. She just interweaves Christian theology so effortlessly into her stories that you walk away with very profound truth. I won't let my kids make the same mistake I did by not reading these books until later in life. They will most certainly be a staple alongside Narnia and the Penderwicks. A true classic.

I haven't read these in years, but these are some of the ones I loved when I Was younger that I am thinking of picking up again!

I do not even remember the first time I read A Wrinkle in Time, but years after that first reading, I found a copy in a used bookstore and fell in love all over again. Today I own the box set as well as a few other books by L'Engle and recommend them to people at every opportunity. I was very sad when L'Engle died, for the world lost a literary genius with incredible talent and vision. Don't let the placement of these books in the children's section fool you...children and adults alike can benefit from reading the entire quartet.

My dad handed these to me on vacation one summer. I liked them especially for the relationships in the books. I remember them as containing some of the weirdest moments of any books I'd read at the time, including some of the more preposterous fantasy.