Gossamer

My 8 year old daughter loves this book which is a fantastic story. It really sparked her creativity and she spoke about the characters and the story's evolution all the time while reading it and immediately after. It was the first book by Lowry that she read and she has since gone on to read the Giver trilogy which she also enjoyed, however Gossamer remains her favourite.

Great book by my favourite author!! Now shared it with my daughters who love it as well!

plutôt réservé aux enfants, contrairement à la tétralogie du Messager qui m'avait ravi. Mais ça reste une belle histoire inventive.

美しいものは美しい思い出を、ガラクタは、辛い思い出、ガラクタな思い出を宿している。あ、片づけなくちゃ。この本を読んで、物を大事にしよう、部屋を片付けようという思いを強くしました。LOIS　LOWRYさんの本はやさしくて、犬がいい感じに描かれていて好きです。多読にも最適です。

Lowry grabs your attention immediately with one of the most precious story characters of all time, Littlest. This tiny one is a dream-giver in training who has the most gentle of touches - a gossamer touch - when she gathers memory information from the objects of her assigned human. The memories are mixed together to form dreams that are bestowed upon the human, bringing happiness and strength. Littlest and her faithful trainer, Thin Elderly, become especially concerned about an elderly woman and her new foster son who has faced terrible abuse. The dialogue from this wounded boy is so poignant and heart-wrenching. He has only a few good memory objects to choose from and the sinisteeds (nightmare givers) are descending upon him nightly. The boy's mother has a dream-giver, too, aiding her as she seeks to retake control of her life in a positive way in order to get her son back. The dream-givers sense the presence of an evil horde of sinisteeds preparing a group attack.Personally, I think every child would benefit from reading this compassionate glimpse into the struggle of a single-mom, the inward pain of a foster child, and the loneliness of the elderly.Captivating!