Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #4: The Giver by Lois Lowry

By: Rena

Rena — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:11:48 +0000

This is my first time reading the Giver. I was really suprised how good it was. I really love the fact that it’s different from any book I ever readed. At the first when I began reading the story, I was really confused if jonas was talking about the present or the past. it kept flipfloping. This book, you may have to reread more then once to get what the author is trying to say. But its all worth it in the end.

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Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:39:27 +0000

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By: Brandy

Brandy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:55:32 +0000

It was challenged by a parent at the school I taught at for the exact reasons you quoted in that article. I was the only committee member who had read it. (The librarian hadn’t even bothered to read in between receiving the challenge and the meeting-don’t even get me started.) It was a loooong meeting that day but finally decided the book would stay in the collection.

By: Kristin Wolden Nitz

Kristin Wolden Nitz — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:36:41 +0000

Sharon, I’m wouldn’t have given you any grief at all for that statement. People could politely agree or disagree, but that’s an extremely reasonable opinion.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:29:03 +0000

I love that beneath the jacket of the original hard cover of The Giver it was solid red. It may have been a coincidence, but I don’t think so. Little details like that really make me happy.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:11:18 +0000

We were just discussing this last week. I said The Giver is the benchmark dystopian novel for juvenile fiction. And you wouldn’t believe the grief I got. Benchmark doesn’t mean the book everyone is currently reading but the book all others are judged by, right?

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:35:21 +0000

This entire time I couldn’t remember if I’d voted for this one this time or not. I guess I did. Yay, quotes!

By: Kasey

Kasey — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:50:54 +0000

The Giver is, and always will be my favorite book of all time. It has been since I first read it at the age of 12. I reread it every single year. And somehow, it was only in reading this page that I discovered that there was going to be a fourth book. I could just about die of happiness.

By: Kristin Wolden Nitz

Kristin Wolden Nitz — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:14:24 +0000

The original dystopian? Um, no. Not even for kids. And unfortunately for ME, I’d read too much science fiction by that time in my life for its ideas to come up and smack me up the side of the head. I really wish that I’d been able to come to that book at the right age.