This animated film was released on Netflix in April, and features the voices of Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short and Ricky Gervais. Her most recent book to hit the big screen (or small screen) is The Willoughbys.
She tells me they still email each other and shows me some of the photos he has sent to her. During her time on set, she struck up a friendship with Jeff Bridges. Lois tells me she didn’t have anything to do with the filming, but she was invited to South Africa to watch part of it.
The Giver movie, released in theaters in 2014, starred the likes of Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, and Taylor Swift. Four of her books have been turned into movies. Her books include The Giver and Number the Stars, both of which are frequently taught as part of school curriculum. Lois Lowry is the best-selling and award-winning author of many young adult books. We sit on a yellow couch with Alfie in between us. She wears a black shirt and checked pants. She is quiet and unassuming, with gray hair and spectacles. Lois returns from the kitchen with her coffee. Behind it a bookcase is bursting with books. The chairs around the dining table are a matching design in varying solid pastels-blue, yellow, pink. A dining table with a colorful sunflower print tablecloth is against the back wall. Armchairs and couches circle a small coffee table. The sitting room is tastefully decorated with earth-tones and flower prints.
“He’s very old and completely deaf,” she adds. “There are not too many dogs of his breed around,” Lois says. Her 14-year-old white Tibetan Terrier, Alfie, greets me while Lois gets coffee from the kitchen. I knock on the door, and Lois invites me inside. The winter weather has begun to turn toward spring, though Maine has a few more snowstorms in store for us in March and April. I arrive at Lois Lowry’s home in Southern Maine on a Friday at the end of February.
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