A Special Event With Lois Lowry !
Saturday, March 8, 2008:
2:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Ms. Lowry will attend these Two Performances of "THE GIVER" and will do a "talk back" to the audience AFTER both Saturday performance.
We do expect this performance to be heavily attended, so please place your ticket orders as soon as possible.
Ms. Lowry will also be doing book signings and will make a presentation earlier in the day, on Saturday, March 8th. Please check out this website often for more information.
"I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination."
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"My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings."
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"The Giver - and Gathering Blue, and the newest in the trilogy: Messenger - take place against the background of very different cultures and times. Though all three are broader in scope than my earlier books, they nonetheless speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment. "