美国教育协会精选的100本最佳童书，以及BBC推荐的11本最伟大英文童书(9)

怀德的9部经典边疆小说都是在她自己19世纪的童年生活启发下写成的。她成长于一个拓荒者家庭，曾经坐着大篷车横穿美国中西部。怀德用逼真的细节描述了一个小女孩跟她的父母、两个姐姐和一条名叫杰克的狗生活在“威斯康星州大森林里的一座灰色小木屋里”。
"As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. There were no houses.” Wilder’s accounts have made daily life on the frontier vivid for generations. (Credit: Harper)
“一个人走一天、一个星期、或者整整一个月，也走不出这片森林。一个房子也看不到，只有森林。” 怀德的作品为一代又一代儿童生动描述了边疆地区的日常生活。（来源：哈珀柯林斯出版社）
10. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle In Time (1962)
《时间的皱纹》（1962年），麦德琳兰歌著

Meg Murry’s father, a time traveling physicist, has disappeared. One night she, her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace and her mother – “a scientist and a beauty as well” – have an unexpected visitor. "Wild nights are my glory," the strange Mrs Whatsit tells them. "I just got blown off course.” She refers to a tesseract, a fifth dimension that allows travel through time and space. With her brother and a high school friend, Calvin, Meg sets out across the universe to find her father.