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Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Her awards include Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature, National Jewish Book Award, and Newbery Honor.




Biography


Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis, descendant of a line of Russian Jews. She is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College.
She was the 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.
She is the author of over one hundred books. Her most notable book series is Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 millions copies printed. Her books have been translated into 19 languages around the world.
Her adult nonfiction work includes the 2011 book, Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider, a biography of the arachnologist Greta Binford, and the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment in WWII.




Works






= Camp Princess

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Born To Rule
Unicorns? Get Real!




= The Royal Diaries

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Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor (England 1544)
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France 1769)
Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country (France 1553)
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses (India, 1627)
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven (Japan 1858)




= Dear America

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A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917
Blazing West: The Journal of Augustus Pelletier, Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804




= My America

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Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Immigrant Diary (also known as Hope In My Heart, Sofia's Ellis Island Diary)
Home at Last: Sofia's Immigrant Diary
An American Spring: Sofia's Immigrant Diary




= Daughters of the Sea

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Hannah
May
Lucy
The Crossing




= Horses of the Dawn

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The Escape (2014)
Star Rise (2014)
Wild Blood (2016)




= Starbuck Family Adventures

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Double Trouble Squared
Shadows in the Water
A Voice in the Wind




= Guardians of Ga'Hoole

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The Capture (also published as a movie tie-in edition in the UK as Legend of the Guardians)
The Journey
The Rescue
The Siege
The Shattering
The Burning
The Hatchling
The Outcast
The First Collier
The Coming of Hoole
To Be a King
The Golden Tree
The River of Wind
Exile
The War of the Ember
The Rise of a Legend (2013) (this is a prequel to the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series about Ezylryb)
Two guide books were released to give readers more insight into the world of Hoole. They are narrated by the owl Otulissa.

A Guide Book to the Great Tree (2007)
Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole (2010)




= Wolves Of The Beyond

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Lone Wolf
Shadow Wolf
Watch Wolf
Frost Wolf
Spirit Wolf
Star Wolf




= The Deadlies

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Felix Takes the Stage
Spiders on the Case




= Bears of the Ice

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Quest of the Cubs
The Den of Forever Frost
The Keepers of the Key




= Portraits

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Dancing Through Fire (2005)




= Standalone titles

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Night Witches (201,)
The Last Girls of Pompeii (2007)
Blood Secret (2004)
Broken Song (2005) (companion to The Night Journey)
Star Split (1999) (Published in German as 3038: Staat der Klone)
Alice Rose and Sam (1998)
True North (1996)
Beyond the Burning Time (1994)
Memoirs of a Bookbat (1994)
The Bone Wars (1988)
Pageant (1986)
Beyond the Divide (1983)
The Night Journey (1981) (1982 winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature)
Prank (1984)
Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend (1999)
Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian (2000)
Ashes (2010)
Chasing Orion (2007)
Home Free (1985)




= Children and YA non-fiction

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John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider (2011) Candlewick. ISBN 978-0-7636-4222-8
Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
Sugaring Time
Days of the Dead
Searching for Laura Ingalls
Monarchs
Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
Dinosaur Dig
Traces of Life: The Origins of Humankind
A Baby map
"Tangled in Time: The Portal" (2019)
"Tangled in Time: The Burning Queen" (2019)




= Picture books

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Lunch Bunnies
Show and Tell Bunnies
Science Fair Bunnies
Tumble Bunnies
Lucille's Snowsuit
Lucille Camps In
Starring Lucille
Pirate Bob
Humphrey, Albert, and the Flying Machine
Before I was Your Mother
The Man Who Made Time Travel
A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
Love That Baby
Mommy's Hands
Porkenstein
Born in the Breezes: The Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
Vision of Beauty
First Painter
The Emperor's Old Clothes
Sophie and Rose. Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, 1998.
Marven of the Great North Woods (1997 winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. January 2013 selection by the PJ Library.)
A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain
Hercules: The Man, The Myth, The Hero
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
The Gates of the Wind
Pond Year
Cloud Eyes
I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
Sea Swan
My Island Grandma




= Adult

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Other than 'Night Gardening all Lasky's works for adult readers are under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

Atlantic Circle (1985) (Memoir about Lasky and her husband, Chris Knight, covering their childhood years on to a trip shortly their getting married sailing a thirty-foot ketch from Maine to Europe and back.)
The Widow of Oz (1989)
Night Gardening (1999) (written under the pseudonym of E.L. Swann)



Calista Jacobs mystery

This series for adult readers was also written under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.

Trace Elements (1986)
Mortal Words (1990)
Mumbo Jumbo (1991)
Dark Swan (1994)




References






External links



Kathryn Lasky
Interview with Kathryn Lasky Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine by OwlPages.com
Interview with Kathryn Lasky at BookReviewsAndMore.ca
Kathryn Lasky at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Kathryn Lasky at Library of Congress, with 138 library catalog records
Kathryn Lasky Knight at LC Authorities, with 7 records (writing for adults)
E. L. Swann at LC Authorities, with 2 records ("writing major commercial fiction for adults")

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• 1944
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
• 24 Juni
• The Wanderer (film 1925)
• Daftar penulis bacaan anak
• John Harrison
• Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik
• Lightstorm Entertainment
• Vertical Entertainment
• TriStar Pictures
• Kathryn Lasky
• Lasky
• Night Journey
• The Royal Diaries
• Dear America
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
• Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Diane de Poitiers
• Søren
• Lone Wolf