2012/09/28

Books With A Wrinkle

WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead (Random House, 2009). 

A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeliene L’Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962).

A WRINKLE IN TIME: The Graphic Novel by Madeliene L’Engle, pictures by Hope Larson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).

 
CR Question:
Which author was first to use “it was a dark and stormy night” in the first sentence of their novel?
A.   Snoopy
B.    Madeliene L’Engle
C.    None of the above 


Answer: The answer is the first letter in the word Cupboard; the words were first used in 1830 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.