While it is difficult to summarize the decades-long career of a luminary who has produced not one, but several seminal books in the history of children’s literature, two things that stand out are Lowry’s versatility, and her respect for her readers’ level of understanding. In 2015, she was awarded the Free Speech Defender Award by the National Coalition Against Censorship. Her unabashed exploration of difficult subject matter has also made her a frequently challenged children’s book author. In her long and distinguished career, Lowry has written 45 books and been awarded two Newbery medals for Number the Stars in 1990, and The Giver in 1994. And the world of children’s literature was never the same again. That same year, Lowry published the first in her now famous series of Anastasia Krupnick books. It won the International Reading Association’s award for fiction in 1979. It was Lowry’s first children’s book, written in her characteristically frank, feeling, and beautiful prose. In 1977, Lois Lowry published A Summer to Die, a story about family, loss, life, and hope. Just posted! A webcast with multiple award-winning author, Lois Lowry.
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