Each child with the skipping rope folded the rope.I was using the Explain Everything iPad app a couple of weeks ago (Explain Everything allows you to make “explainer” videos quickly and easily on your iPad) and it occurred to me that the red laser pointer which can be used to point out things when you’re recording your video looked just like the red bouncing ball in the “follow the bouncing ball” lyrics videos I remember from childhood. Each child with the ball caught the ball. Each woman stood on the steps of her house. The print of their dresses was different, but they all gave the appearance of being the same. Then the doors of all the houses opened simultaneously, and out came women like a row of paper dolls. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. 'They're skipping and bouncing in rhythm! Everyone's doing it at exactly the same moment.' She looked at Calvin, and saw that he, too, was puzzled. It seemed exactly like children playing around any housing development at home, and yet there was something different about it.

Meg felt vaguely that something was wrong with their play. Meg had aįeeling that if she could count the flowers there would beĮxactly the same number for each house. Of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike, small square boxes painted gray. They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.īelow them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.'Ī tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way.

'I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. 'Wild nights are my glory,' the unearthly stranger told them. 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.

Kid bouncing red ball