Many Waters (Wrinkle in Time, Book Four)

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraordinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father’s experiment.

Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.

The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants.

The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home – they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won’t be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he’s about to start building a boat in the desert.

To access all the books in the Time Quintet by Madeleine L’Engle, please go here.

Kidviews – Many Waters
By Lily Evans

“Many waters cannot quench love,’ she whispered. ‘Neither can floods drown it.”

Many waters is the 4th and (in my opinion) the best one out of L’engle’s quintet.
It is both adventurous, fun-loving, and well-written.
It is a book where you can read it not once, twice or any more than that, and still want to enjoy it again, and to read it once more.

Sandy and Dennys -the more down to earth members of the Murphy family, who have not yet had an adventure to themselves- decide to meddle with their father’s experiments. It ends up with them having to find their way around reimagined biblical times, and making new friends, stretching the powers of belief, and facing disastrous threats to ruin the oasis that they now call a temporary home. Sandy and Dennys have to somehow find their way home, while helping their friends in the process.

Many Waters has been a favourite book in my mind for a long time, and it is a truly, very good book, and so is the rest of the quintet.

I highly recommend it! It’s fascinating, heartwarming, and overall a REALLY great book. Although it’s better for older readers, it has many captivating and wholesome moments for 9-10+ readers in need of a good novel to read with your flashlight, underneath your blanket at 3AM so your mom won’t find out:)

Happy Reading!