DVD release of A Wrinkle in Time
Dear ones,
The past few months have been incredibly busy in the world of Madeleine L’Engle! “A Wrinkle in Time” was released in theaters on February 26, 2018. The film was a long time coming to the big screen and Ava DuVernay hit a new milestone as the film’s director; according to TIME, “Wrinkle will make DuVernay the fourth woman to solo-direct a movie with a budget over $100 million and the first African-American woman ever to do so.” (This is a pretty big deal, considering that “women make just 3 percent of all big box-office movies” to begin with.)
The film’s diverse cast broke boundaries as well, especially with 14-year-old Storm Reid cast as protagonist Meg Murry. ““I grew up in an era where there was absolutely zero, minus, images of girls like [Reid’s Meg] in pop culture,” DuVernay said in a New York Times interview. “So I do imagine, to be a brown-skinned girl of any race throughout the world, looking up on that screen and seeing Storm, I think that is a capital A, capital W, E, some, AWESOME, experience.” And the novel itself, 56 years after publication, returned to #1 on bestseller lists this spring.
The film’s soundtrack is available on iTunes now, and the DVD will be released on June 5, with streaming available on May 29.
Over the last few months, Madeleine’s granddaughters Léna Roy and Charlotte Jones Voiklis have been touring the country with their new middle-grade biography of their grandmother, Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters. The book, meaningfully published in what would have been Madeleine’s 100th year, has had excellent reception, including a starred review in Booklist. (Listen to Charlotte talk more about both Becoming Madeleine and the Wrinkle movie in a great NPR interview here, and share thoughts about their grandmother in the School Library Journal blog.)
Tesser well!
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Charlotte Jones Voiklis is Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughter and executor of her estate. She is a lead producer of the musical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. She is also the co-author with Jennifer Adams of A Book, Too, Can Be a Star (October 2022), a picture book biography illustrated by Adelina Lirius; and, with her sister, Léna Roy, of Becoming Madeleine (2018), a biography for middle grade readers.
She wrote the afterword to the 50th Anniversary edition of A Wrinkle in Time, and the introduction to The Moment of Tenderness (2020), a collection of short stories. Charlotte has also written and spoken extensively about her grandmother’s work to a variety of audiences.
With a PhD in Comparative Literature, Charlotte’s professional experience spans teaching, fundraising, communications, and grant making. She has also volunteered as a mediator in the New York City court system, and coached police officers on mediation skills. Charlotte lives in New York and Connecticut with her husband and has two grown children.