This set of books are an amazing read for younger kids. they are very imaginative. and like so many other fantasy books I have re-read now that I am older offers a whole new insight and meaning into the mind of the writer.

I read these books back in the "day." They're one of the few books from my childhood that I still think about to this day. I cannot recommend them enough and have made my children read them, as well as my nieces and nephews, and anyone else I can convince to do so. They're even enjoyable for adults, as I discovered when I re-read them with my daughter a few years back.

Teresa’s review sums it up perfectly.

Amazing series. Read it when I was little, and a lot of the science went over my head but the plots and the characters were enough to keep reading. I can enjoy them even more now that I'm older. Timeless.

I haven't read these in years but remember loving them as a child. I think there are some themes/parts parents might want to review, though, as I recall. Very interesting stories. And some romance, too!

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!

Some of the best science fiction out there in my opinion. I love the way the stories intermingle without having an "order" to read them in. The characters are very easy to get into and I really found myself caring about what happend to them.

and the fifth one -- the name excapes me at the moment. I was so excited to find that she had written others since her trilogy years ago. I am not a fan of SciFi, but for some reason, she is the exception for me. She is such a good writer, and I do love children's books if they're good.

such a good series

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.

So I just finished reading this series for the first time and loved it. The edition I have doesn't have a list of which order to read the books in, so I had to guess. In case you're wondering, the order is: A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; Many Waters; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favourite, but I really enjoyed A Swiftly Tilting Planet. I liked how everything was so interconnected. I really enjoyed the series because it's sci-fi, and fantasy, and clever and amusing. I would highly recommend this series.

From A Wrinkle in Time: I liked the part where Meg tried to explain light and dark to someone who has never seen. Favourite characters: Aunt Beast and Calvin O'Keefe. But mostly Aunt Beast.

"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.