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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780385734165
ISBN: 0385734166
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: January 08, 2008
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 18341
Studio: Yearling
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Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. Each night she and her teacher, Thin Elderly, visit an old woman’s home where she softly touches beloved objects, gathering happy memories, and drops of old scents and sounds. Littlest One pieces these bits together and presents them to her sleeping human in the form of pleasant dreams. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares, are always at work against the dreamgivers. When the old woman takes in John, an angry foster child with a troubled past, the Sinisteeds go after him with their horrifying nightmares. Can Littlest One, and her touch light as gossamer, protect John’s heart and soul from the nightmare of his dark past?
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There's something to be said about a book that's 140 pages long, that you can read in an hour...but you can't seem to get out of your head for the rest of the day.
'Gossamer' is one of those stories. Elegant, simple, straightforward, and yet somehow magical. In one sense, it is the story of a young 'dream-giver' who is just learning her craft, how to draw good dreams from the sleeping world and give them to the dreamers as they slumber. In telling her story, though, 'Gossamer' weaves ... Read More
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Gossamer is about a little boy named Jon who gets bad dreams. So... it's up to the dream givers to give good dreams. Littlest it in training to give people good dreams. To give people good dreams the dream givers have to touch something good in the person's life. Jon starts to like a dog. Then the dream givers give him a dream about the dog. I like this book because it is fun to read and makes me think a lot. It makes mo think I wonder if there is such a thing as dream givers. I also think ... Read More
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"Gossamer" is a very creative spin of the Light versus Dark motif in the context of dream fairies versus nightmare horses. For her intended audience, Lois Lowery pulls this off with refreshing creativity and well crafted prose. This is a book that can be safely recommend to just about any child (or adult for that matter).
Two notes of caution:
First, Lowery, wittingly or unwittingly, spins her yarn within a worldview where those who have fallen cannot be redeemed. As stated ... Read More
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This month I read the fantastic book Gossamer by Lois Lowry. It is about imaginary creatures called dreamgivers. Each dreamgiver has a house; there they gather happy memories from items and give humans and pets dreams. The main character in this story is named Littlest One. Each night she and her teacher Thin Elderly set dreams upon the humans. In the house to which Littlest One and Thin Elderly were assigned lives a lady and an eight year old boy named Jon. The evil sinisteeds have targeted Jon because ... Read More
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Gossamer contains both a delightful story about learning to use one's gifts to ease human suffering and a rich metaphor of the workings of the human psyche. Mysterious creatures of the night, more like angels than faeries, flutter and flicker through the objects of our lives finding fragments from which to form dreams to bestow on us. In this gentle story, a young apprentice dream-giver discovers how to use her gossamer touch to find the right fragments to give healing dreams to an abused and angry eight ... Read More
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