![]() Fastidious and Littlest spend the first chapters of the book wandering through the house collecting memories, and then, Fastidious shows Littlest how to bestow a dream upon the sleeping old woman. ![]() ![]() Littlest has been assigned to a lonely, older woman who lives alone in a large, two-story house. ![]() Fastidious is impatient with Littlest One's questions and her inability to focus. Littlest One is a new Bestower, which means that she is assigned a family and is responsible for using their items to extract memories and create dreams. Littlest One asks her mentor Fastidious questions about what kind of animal she is. Though Littlest One is the protagonist of the story, the book also follows a few human characters – an old, lonely woman, her newly adopted foster son, John, and John's abusive father and immature, though well-meaning, mother. The book seeks to tell the origin story of dreams by following a supernatural being called Littlest One, a fairy-like creature who, taking memories from common household objects, uses them to weave beautiful dreams. ![]() Gossamer is a short work of young adult fantasy by award-winning author Lois Lowry. ![]()
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