Entries by Charlotte Jones Voiklis

Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in Many Voices by Leonard Marcus

From Publishers Weekly: In this insightful biography of beloved children’s book author Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time), Marcus (Minders of Make-Believe) draws upon dozens of interviews with those who knew L’Engle personally and professionally, as well as with representatives of “the thousands of students, teachers, librarians, aspiring writers, neighbors and others who crossed her […]

Vote for A Wrinkle in Time!

First Book provides great books to children from low-income families, and they’ve given away a lot of books in the past twenty years. In fact, they’re about to distribute their 100 millionth book, and they want YOU to help choose what it should be. There are 10 books to choose from, and A Wrinkle in […]

Camilla Movie

Will A Wrinkle in Time make it to the big screen? Possibly. Camilla, though, is almost there! Check out this article in Christianity Today on the making of Camilla, the movie, by Madeleine’s god-daughter, filmmaker Cornelia Moore.

Here’s the NPR piece

This story ran yesterday on most public radio stations. Enjoy! “Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a publisher hearing a pitch about a children’s book whose tangled plot braids together quantum physics, fractions and megaparsecs (a measure for distances in intergalactic space). The book also casually tosses out phrases in French, Italian, German and ancient […]