彩虹照耀

Tom
as, a f rail, shy
 eight-year-old  boy, has been livin
g a solitary li fe i n a drab orphana ge sad, f r

iendless and 
alone. T
hen a
joyous burst of colour comes i nto his world : Maire O' Don nell, whose smil

 e and spirit  li
ght  up the darkest room and Tomas's h
eart. Before he kno ws it, Tomas
 is  on a boat, sa iling to wind-swept Co  rr ie Is land off t
he coast of I 
reland, wh e re he mee ts Ale c,  her r
e
ticent husband wh
o  cannot hide his disappointment with the boy.Undiscouraged, Maire introdu
ces Tomas th e wonders of his new world. She s h
ares with  hi
m the secret of the s eals, the mystery
 of the ston  e giant and shows him that yo
u can find  magic anywh  ere- if you r  eally look. In this r
ugge  d and enc
hanting world, Tomas thr 
ives.
 He befriends a 

pair  of is
la nd children a
n  d r escues an o rphan seal 
pup who join him on his journey 
of self-discovery. 
Slowly, Alec too  begins to see in
 Tomas what
 Maire al ways has.But w

hen trag edy strikes, Tomas i s
 f aced with h is gr eatest challenge yet, fo 
r he  will lose ev e rything un les  s he can find
 and share  the magic that
's inside him. Riski 
ng
all, Tomas em bar
ks on a perilous journey where he will need 
to ca
l l on all of Ma
ire&
#39;s gifts to triumph a nd come home.  A
Shine o

f Rainbows is  a story about the transformational powe r 
of love- ab
 out fi nding accep tance, discoverin g magic, an
d
about realiz
ing that rainbows are all around you and

 within you, too.