Saturday Lois Lowry turned 83-years-old! Don't know who she is? Yes, you do! Lowry wrote The Giver, which is one of the greatest classics in children's literature. Check out this interesting history from thoughtco.com:
Author Lois Lowry is best known for The Giver, her dark, thought-provoking, and controversial fantasy, which is a young adult novel, and for Number the Stars, a children's novel about the Holocaust. Lois Lowry received the prestigious Newbery Medal for each of these books. However, what many people don't know is that Lowry has written more than thirty books for children and young teens, including several series. Lois Lowry has written more than thirty books for young people, from 2 year-olds to teens, and has received numerous honors. Lowry received the prestigious John Newbery Medal for two of her books: Number the Stars and The Giver. Other honors include the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award. The Giver is 23rd on the American Library Association's list of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009. To learn more, see In Their Own Words: Authors Talk About Censorship, in which Lowry discusses reactions to The Giver and states, "Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of The Giver: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all." We have both Number the Stars and The Giver in the library! So check it out and get to reading today. These are both EXCELLENT books!
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