A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Top: 1962 Ariel Books first edition dust jacket cover art by Ellen Raskin
Bottom: 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf mass market paperback cover art by Richard Bober
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. “Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract”. Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
When I first decided to post the cover of A Wrinkle in Time, I knew I would be posting the nightmare fuel of the 1976 edition I plucked off my mom's shelf as an unsuspecting kid. It turns out that I'm not the only person interested in knowing who made the red eyed face that haunted so many childhood dreams. The answer (Richard Bober) was a lot more difficult to find than you'd expect of such a popular book.
But then I saw the original and loved it and knew not including it too would be a disservice to Ellen Raskin
