Looking Back: A Book of Memories

Lois Lowry is my favorite author of all time. The Giver has always been an important book to me. So when I found out about this book I was ecstatic to read it. I read it in one sitting. It is much different than what you would usually expect from a memoir or biography. There is no order to the events in this book. It honestly feels like I just sat in Lois Lowry's living room, while she flips through a photo album of her life and tells stories. It was beautiful to read a memoir about her life in this way.

Very nice collectable book. Lovely short stories, lots of photos.

Powerful book for young and old alike. Must read for all fans of Lowry. Pages 182-183 worth the price alone and hard to read without a tear in your eye at the absolute beauty of the truth she has learned and shares.

I got the digital copy & there were a lot of typos in that form. My friends had hard copies and didn't have those problems. I read this for my book club and I really enjoyed how Lois Lowry tells short stories about her life.

The author really writes gently to children.

This is a great book that gets in the mind of Lois Lowry. Very humorous and touching stories about what she took from her own life to make into the great books she writes.

This book is truly touching. The pictures are funny at times, and everything is just very nice. I have read the book twice now, and plan to read it again!

It was amazing to read about her life, the ups and downs. I would recommend this book to anyone. Easy and great read.

Lois Lowry was lucky that people in her family were interested in photography and she has some amazing photographs of family life at the beginning of the 20th Century. This trend continued in her family and Lowry herself is a gifted photographer. She wrote this moving, brilliant memoir in 1998 and released an updated and expanded version in 2016. Reading it, one can sense the love of family, the depth of personal loss and her quiet acceptance of the ebb and flow of life.

Voilà une dame que j'aimerais avoir pour amie . Beaucoup de finesse , d'humour, de délicatesse dans le commentaire de cet album de famille qu'elle ouvre pour nous . On perçoit la femme derrière l'écrivain et l'on se rend compte que les oeuvres qu'elle a créees sont, comme la famille qu'elle a fondée, empreintes d'amour des autres, de tendresse, de sagesse , de sens du partage . Elle aussi est " a giver" . La fin de la séance passée à ses côtés se termine par un très bel éloge de la lecture , celle que l'on partage avec un enfant en lui lisant des histoires et en l'ouvrant aux expériences du monde .