Skipping to ask what age range is A Wrinkle In Time good for? Is 7 too young?

Hmm, now I want to re-read this. (I've been re-reading all of the adult L'Engle books over the past couple of weeks, but I think I just finished the last one on my shelf. Onward to A Wrinkle in Time, I think.)

How about the graphic novel version of A Wrinkle in Time?

I dislike this plan. Save the real thing for later.

I'm shopping for girls ages 4 and 7 and boys ages 13 and 15. I swear this used to be easier.

My cousin, who is 11, likes the Percy Jackson books, and the sequel series. Also the Merlin series. There was another, but I can't recall. Many and many of the nerdlets on my Tumblr like the Young Wizards series. You could also do the first 3 Hitchhiker's books.

I would be tempted to tell you to get the 15 YO a John Green book and introduce him to the Nerdfighter community.

I loved The Boxcar Children! I want to live in the boxcar and get dishes from the dump and clean them with sand!

Dammit. Had an awesome post and I searched away.

Attempt two:

Emeline's current faves:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (though Joe hates them) Kate DiCamillo (Winn-Dixie, Despereaux) Katie Kazoo Junie B (for the younger)

Also, Patricia Polacco can Do No Wrong. She is fantastic author. Her books look like picture books, but the issues she deals with are things like "special ed" kids, bullying, racism, cancer, etc. but in kid friendly terms and ways that kids can really relate to it. She is one of the most amazing children's authors I have come across.

For non-fiction, the "Who is ..." series is great; Emeline has almost of the ones about Influential Women.

No! I had no idea it was ever filmed.

Oh, bother, I've confused it with E. Nexbit's The Railway Children.

Aurelia - Lemony Snicket? Narnia. The Oz books. Tuesdays in the Castle.

We are making forays into The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. I will let you know how it goes.

here's an app that lets you compare relative frames-per-second animations, up to your monitor's refresh rate

oh no I won't be doing that.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONSUELA!

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flomp.

Happy birthday, Consuela! I think it's time you poured yourself some Scotch.

Dag, I'm always boggled by stuff I find on German pop culture. First it was finding out that the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge comics were hugely popular, but weren't translated but given entirely new dialogue, laden with literary and philosphical allusions.

Similarly, Hogan's Heroes was massively popular but dubbed into German with highly ironic dialogue substituted (almost like Mystery Theater 3000).

Now, I find out that the juvenile series Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (one of my favorites growing up) is still going strong over there and is up to 152 books.

::Headdesk::

I need some dealing~ma. Can't explain right now but yowza.

I definitely was reading Wrinkle in Time by 7, but I wasn't a representative reader. I found it scary, but in a "want to read all the other books" way, not a nightmares way. I'm still pretty creeped out by the whole It thing, though, and the kids all playing in unison.

I later did a book report on Wind in the Door where it was really clear I wasn't understanding any of the major themes at all, and my mom had to read it to figure out what the fuck I was talking about. She didn't say WTF, tho.

I...haven't reread any of L'engle since her death.