At 400 pages, it's one of Larson's most ambitious comic projects to date, taking her 2 years to complete, and her passion and hard work can be seen on every page, in every detail. Larson's illustrations and vision of L'Engle's classic time-travel fantasy book brought the fantastic world of Meg, Calvin O'Keefe and Charles Wallace Murry to life for a new generation of readers, and has become a staple in classrooms as well. The graphic novel went on to win numerous awards and praise, including the Eisner for Best Publication for Teens, reached #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List, and was the California Library Association's Best Graphic Novel of 2012 as well as Barnes & Noble's. Incidentally, HG Wells and Jules Verne both have craters on the Moon named after them.Back in 2012, publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux released Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel adapted by Hope Larson ( Gray Horses, Chiggers, Mercury).

There's a crater on Mercury named after L'Engle.

Wheaton College in Illinois maintains a special collection of L'Engle's papers and other materials, dating back to 1919, a year after the author's birth.

They were The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting, Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs (a biography of Louisa May Alcott), Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James, and the historical children's books of Hendrik Willem van Loon. In her Newbery Award acceptance speech, L'Engle referenced several books as influential in her childhood.Other winners include Susan Cooper, Ellen Raskin, Katherine Paterson, Lois Lowry, and Neil Gaiman. This award is given to authors for an outstanding contribution to American literature for children. A Wrinkle in Time won the Newbery Award in 1963.A Wrinkle in Time has a famous opening line - 'It was a dark and stormy night.' This line was first used by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.In geometry, the tesseract is a four-dimensional analog representation of a cube. A Wrinkle in Time was rejected by dozens of publishers, many of whom thought the plotline was too complex for children.A Wrinkle in Time is first part of a quintet - the other titles are A Wind in the Door (published in 1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986), and An Acceptable Time (1989).They had two children and adopted a third. L'Engle married actor Hugh Franklin in 1946.In 1982, a sequel was published, called A Severed Wasp, in which Katherine appears as an elderly widow. Published in 1945, it is a semi-autobiographical novel about the many difficulties faced by pianist Katherine Forrester between the ages of 10 and 19. L'Engle's first novel was called The Small Rain.

A Wrinkle in Time by Hope Larson