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Lois Ann Lowry (/ ˈ l aʊər i /; [2] née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer.She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey.
A 2004 study found that The Giver was a common read-aloud book for sixth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [43] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed it as one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". [ 44 ]
He takes care in his dream-giving and is quite happy with it. Most Ancient: Most Ancient is the eldest dream-giver of Gossamer's Heap. He is wise in many ways and advises the dream-givers in many aspects of life. Strapping: Strapping is a young dream-giver from a different Heap. He was careless in his dream-giving; however, after he was ...
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ ˈ æ d r i ə n / AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", [1] [2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". [3]
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
In a tweet from July 2024, Drew Daniel of electronic music duo Matmos described a fictional music genre he encountered in a dream entitled "hit em". Recounted to him by a nondescript woman in the dream, the genre is a type of electronic music "with super crunched out sounds" in a 5/4 time signature with a tempo of 212 beats per minute.
The title came from the Irish poet W. B. Yeats' 1914 volume of poems Responsibilities, which has an epigraph "In dreams begins responsibility," attributed to an "Old play." The story has been available in print since the author's death in two posthumously published collections of Schwartz's work, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other ...
The Dream Book: A Young Person's Guide to Understanding Dreams. Tundra Books. 2002. ISBN 9780615644127. – Non-fiction winner of the 2002 Parents' Guide Media Award, nominated for the Young Hoosier's Book Award 2004-2005; The Universal Dream Key. Harper Collins. 2009. ISBN 9780061857379. The Dream Messenger : How Dreams of the Departed Bring ...