When summer comes around I'm almost always reminded of sailing camp or week long trips to Florida and Disney World. But what I remembered last night during a conversation with NTF were lazy days of summer reading every one of my much loved Babysitter's Club books.
Oh how I wished to be Claudia. She was so funky and cool and probably was the hottest dresser (if you can call anything that we teenagers wore during the early 90s cool) or even Dawn, who embodied that laid back California charm- is that really what all 12 year old girls are like in California?

But the conversation made me think hard about what I would classify as my all time favourite books and although I loved Nancy Drew and all her scary mysteries and the Babysitters for their quick reads, the book or more accurately books I can say really made me want to read day in and day out weren't those books. These books were the Harry Potter's of my generation. My favourite quartet of books from my younger days have quite a few similarities to the ole' HP. Madeleine L'Engle probably never was or never will be as famous as J.K. Rowling but she certainly new how to transport me into another world.

I could lay out in my yard with the sun beaming bright over head and the daffodils scratching at my feet and follow Meg on her first fantastical journey in
A Wrinkle In Time:
and I really could lose myself in a book. I read all of the "Wrinkle" quartet.

I think I'd like to spend a day soon, lost in all of those books again lazing away in the grass. I can't really remember what other books kept me as interested as L'Engle's books but I'm sure there are plenty out there that have also inspired you to wish life could be as easy as getting lost in a book.