Meanwhile the antithesis of Littlest One’s tribe of benevolent helpers, the Sinisteed, are on the prowl and are seeking to destroy the good work that has improved the lives of the woman and the boy. The boy’s name is John and he’s filled with emotional pain from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, he complicates the dream creature’s jobs but Littlest One and her mentor grow to care deeply for him. The woman is extremely lonely with only her dog for company, and she decides to take in an abused foster child with a host of anger management problems. Littlest One is an apprentice dream-bearer, she and the elder who is training her routinely visit an older woman’s home to bestow comforting dreams upon her for the sake of peaceful sleep cycles and mental well-being. It’s a pretty straightforward story with only a couple of characters to keep track of. I categorized this novel’s genre as fantasy to keep things fairly simple but it would perhaps be more accurately described as ‘magical realism.’ There’s something fulfilling about reading an unfamiliar book by a childhood favorite, and I had thought the premise of Gossamer sounded cool for a long time. This book ended up being kind of a trip down memory lane for me even though I had never read it before I used to love Lois Lowry’s books when I was a kid.
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