A Wrinkle in Time: A Visually Engaging Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story

Phoebe: It’s about the book being interesting but it was very expensive like $11 for a comic e book? But pricey if you ask me

Australia on Oct 04, 2023

c.m.: My 9 year old niece loved the book and has already read it 3 times. I would advise to make sure the child likes graphic art books. Otherwise this may not be for them and it would be better to buy the regular book

United States on Aug 12, 2023

Miss M. Robinson: My 13year old son LOVED this version of the book! Not 'dumbed-down' in its conversion to graffic novel at all but made more appealing to a younger generation.

United Kingdom on Jul 01, 2022

Luis O.: Great read I wasn’t expecting it being written as a comic in it’s entirety. I was expecting an illustrated novel. But very captivating

Germany on Jan 18, 2022

Amazon Customer: Platform: Bought a Kindle version. The good thing first, the art work is great and I thoroughly enjoyed the read. The current Kindle support for graphic novels is great and makes reading them enjoyable.
The book: I picked it up because it's a classic. The story is simple and has its moments. The world building and the justification for most events in the book is weakly done. It tries to make a social commentary, but again it is half done. The story has potential, however a weak narrative doesn't allow it to happen.
I have not read the original book. Perhaps that better addresses the issues I had with this book.

India on Dec 02, 2020

M. E. (Murphy) Waggoner: Madeliene L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" was one of the few young adult books that I actually read when I was a young adult. I loved it then and have read it repeatedly in the past 40 years. My current passion for graphic novels and adaptations led me to this version by Hope Larson.

Unlike some graphic novel adaptations, Larson had to abridge this story to some extent. The other issue I had with this book was that the characters did not appear as I had envisioned them. But the former was a necessity and the latter was a matter of personal interpretation, and neither detracted from the quality of this book.

The adaptation follows the story of Meg and company closely. Larson chose a difficult book to illustrate. Characters such as Aunt Beast and IT might be better left to the imagination. While the art is good, I would have liked it to have used as much color as the cover.

My original intention was to reread L'Engle's version before I read this adaptation, but graphic novels draw me into them and don't let go until I have made it to the last page. It has been at least 10 years since I last read "Wrinkle," and it may be best that I didn't read it right before this...

United States on Jul 09, 2016

Heather @ Random Redheaded Ramblings: Ok I have never read the original non illustrated version of this classic tale but in the last year I have started taking an interest in graphic novels and this seemed like a good choice. I have always wanted to read it and it was full of cool illustrations.

The story of Meg and Charles along with their friend Calvin is a thrilling and also it is an enchanting read. It very quickly casts it spell and before you know it you are a hundred pages in.

I blame the eyes myself, the illustrator Hope Larson has done an amazing job and each character, most especially Meg has the most expressive eyes, really beautiful to be honest. It is illustrated in blues and blacks to tremendous effect.

Now I am presuming that you may have read the original but like me if you haven't, it is the story of a girl and her younger brother plus their friend who find themselves travelling through time and space to try and find their father. Along the way they meet some unusual characters and see some incredible things but they never lose sight of what they need to find.

A wonderful read which I am planning on re-visiting with a read of the traditional version.

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United Kingdom on Feb 06, 2016

Paul R: This is a really interesting graphic novel version of the the much loved story _A Wrinkle in Time_. For the most part, it follows the story fairly accurately.

The graphics are unique and interesting. I admit, I was a tad bit put off with the blue toned shading on the artwork, but it grows on you after a little while. In fact, the artwork alone is a good enough reason to purchase this version of the story, though a full color edition would have been much better. Perhaps we can hope for one in the future.

Okay, to the details. :) The graphic novel follows the prose novel pretty well. The author/artist does make some minor changes to the story. I found those changes quite interesting, as they gave me a bit of insight on how the author interprets this story. She makes a few different choices than I do.

One choice is how the characters are drawn, Meg is close to how I have always seen her in my minds eye, but Charles Wallace and Calvin are totally different than I ever envisioned. And that was pretty fun, because it was almost like these characters were new again.

Still interesting, though not so entertaining, were depictions of things the author and artist...

United States on Oct 05, 2012