Module 8
Gossamer
Summary:
Littlest One is
assigned to a house. She is reminded to just touch things but not linger
because then she would sense the entire experience of that particular item.
Littlest One was excited about the assignment but she was always wanting to
know more and more. She comes to the aid
of an elderly woman, who has no one but her dog and a little boy that is so
hurt and angry because of a painful past.
She is able to help these two develop peace and restoration to
themselves and each other. Little did
they know that they were being helped.
Citation:
Lowry, L. (2006). Gossamer.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
My Thoughts:
It is a strange concept to
think that there are little things that help us to dream and sleep. I thought the book was interesting but kind
of hard to see. I had to kind of had to read quickly and may not have picked up
on everything that it was saying on the development of the dream givers and why
they were created. I think that it gives a great example of loving people no
matter their age or background. We
Littlest One is a
delicate, invisible spirit who is in training to be a dream-giver, learning to
blend fragments of happy memories with fragile details of daily life for people
as they sleep. She helps a tormented foster child at night, bestowing healing memories
in his dreams. He remembers a button, a broken seashell on a shelf, a book left
open, images that fight the sinister Hordes that torment him with nightmares of
his father’s vicious abuse. Lowry’s plain, poetic words speak directly to
children about the powerful, ordinary things in everyday life, such as the
boy’s memory of a baseball game (“the curved line of stitches on the ball and
then the high thwacking sound of the hit”); the feel of his dog’s silky, warm
fur; and the thump of the dog’s tail against the floor. Pair this fantasy with
Valerie Worth’s All the Small Poems (1995) and with Katherine
Paterson’s realistic novel, The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978), about an
abused child in loving foster care. — Hazel Rochman
Rochman, H. (2006, February 15). Booklist Review.
Retrieved from Booklist Online:
http://www.booklistonline.com/Gossamer-Lois-Lowry/pid=1580890
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