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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" is Madeleine L'Engle's spirited defense of the responsibility of children's literature to confront difficult questions, as she did in all her work, particularly her masterpiece A Wrinkle in Time. This e-book contains the text ofher famousspeech as well as her introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time, original revie...more
ebook, 32 pages
Published
May 8th 2012
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Real short, like one-sitting short, but good. She certainly didn't take the task of writing children's books lightly. I'd be interested to read more from her on the subject.
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If you love Madeleine L'Engle like I do, this memoir-like "speech" and then thoughts on how A Wrinkle In Time came into being, is fascinating indeed.
Ms. L'Engle writes about the responsibility of writing for children, about crushing rejections, about how she came up with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, and then, like treasure at the end, the *actual* manuscript pages of the first chapter (including editor's penciled-in edits) of A Wrinkle In Time.
A fascinating peek into the mind of a grea...more
Ms. L'Engle writes about the responsibility of writing for children, about crushing rejections, about how she came up with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, and then, like treasure at the end, the *actual* manuscript pages of the first chapter (including editor's penciled-in edits) of A Wrinkle In Time.
A fascinating peek into the mind of a grea...more
As soon as I saw this, I had to have it. This is an e-book that contains the text of a speech Madeleine L'Engle gave about censorship and the responsibility of writers of children's literature to ask good questions and be faithful to the truth of things. I also enjoyed reading her introduction to A Wrinkle in Time, giving us a glimpse into the ideas behind the story, and surprising me with the number of rejection slips she received from publishers who didn't understand the story, or felt that it...more
I pretty much agree with and admire everything Madeleine L'Engle writes and this is no exception. A quick little read with some very deep thoughts about the important and serious task of writing the truth for children. Using mainly her experience with writing and publishing "A Wrinkle in Time", she addresses the importance of asking difficult questions, acknowledging that sometimes children are more equipped to handle them than adults. A lovely way to spend an hour or so..
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Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regener...more
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