When I was in seventh grade in prepschool everyone except me delivered a book report on “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle. It also won a LOT of awards, so I decided it needed to be avoided at all costs because anything that was so popular had to be bad.

I knew that it was some kind of science fiction, something I believed to be a degenerate form of literature until my beloved husband turned me on to the writings of Robert Heinlein some years later.  I read a few days ago the (would-you-believe) Wikipedia article on the book. Read more on Disney’s Female Empowerment Flick…