Evil Can Do Anything, For

She Fell Asleep, And It Was A Sleep As Thin As The Night Clouds, Dotted With Dreams That Came And Went Like The Stars.

Today Is Declared An Unscheduled Holiday.

People In The Know Say The Giver Was The First Young Adult Dystopian Novel.

The Writer After All Is Only Half The Book, The Other Half Is The Reader.

When I Wrote 'the Giver,' It Contained No So-called 'bad Words.' It Was Set, After All, In A Mythical, Futuristic, And Utopian Society. Not Only Was There No Poverty, Divorce, Racism, Sexism, Pollution, Or Violence In The World Of 'the Giver'; There Was Also Careful Attention Paid To Language: To Its Fluency, Precision, And Power.