I don't know how many of you here were bookish kids. I was, though. Some kids would be begged to get taken to the mall on weekends--I always wanted to go to the library.
Regardless of whether or not you read a lot as a kid, I'm sure that somewhere, for some class, you have read A Wrinkle In Time or any of the books in its series or by its author.
Well, the author, Madeline L'Engle, passed away today at age 88. It's a sad day for children's books.
(...Someone else here cares, right? I'm not alone in being really depressed by this, right?)
On a creepy note, that makes 3 famous authors who've died this year: Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos lots of short stories) and Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron and the rest of the Prydain Chronicles) also died. Lloyd Alexander was ALSO a children's book writer... if another children's book writer dies, I will officially be creeped out beyond all reason.
Sorry for being such a downer, but my inner 10-year-old needs to go off and have a good cry.