Framed Diamond

We saw the movie The Giver last night, and for the most part, we enjoyed it. I’d recommend it to you, but I really think you should read the book first. If it has been more than a few years since you read it, you should crack it open again. Lois Lowry won a Newbery Award in 1994 for this book, and in her acceptance speech she said, “The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.”