Now, Jilly must be an ally, a sister, and a friend to people whose life experiences are very different from her own, and she learns a lot about herself along the way. But since her new friend Derek is both deaf and Black, Jilly needs to learn how to practice empathy and understand the intersection of Derek’s lived experience…and she stumbles a lot along the way. Trying to learn all she can about how to help her younger sister, Jilly gets in touch with Derek, who is also deaf. But when Jilly’s sister, Emma, is born deaf, she has to reimagine everything she knew about both sisterhood and disability. From the fights, to the favoritism, to the shared everything, it can be difficult to navigate the lifelong responsibility. In the story, a powerful group of astral women guides the children on their journey this group of narrators serves a similar purpose for listeners, and they do a stellar job of making it magical.īeing a big sister is not easy.

The 2018 film adaptation ushered in a revival of the classic story for a new audience, and it’s only fitting that this new audiobook includes significant players from this new era: film director Ava DuVernay performs the introduction, author Madeleine L’Engle delivers the foreword, and her granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, performs the afterword, while Tony-nominated actress Hope Davis performs the story itself.

With their friend Calvin, the children embark on a magic-filled journey to find their father. A mysterious stranger gives them the tip they need-that time can, in fact, be manipulated. He was experimenting with time travel when he unexpectedly disappeared. Madeleine L’Engle’s tale follows Meg Murray and her little brother, Charles Wallace, whose father has been missing. A Wrinkle in Time has been a childhood classic since it was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1963.

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