Madeleine L’Engle passes
Madeleine L’Engle a gifted storyteller, died of natural causes on Thursday at the age of 88. Her great Newbery Award winning novel A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books as a child and remains one of my favorite books today.
Kids Lit writes, Our planet just tilted a little and hole has been left behind.
AmoXcalli has a full list of L’Engle links
The New York Times ends their obituary with
“Why does anybody tell a story?� Ms. L’Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer.
“It does indeed have something to do with faith,� she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.�





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