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Kathryn Lasky

American children's writer (born 1944)

Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944)[1] is an American children's man of letters who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include a few Dear America books, The Sovereign Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of grandeur Beyond, and the Guardians style Ga'Hoole series.

Her awards comprise Anne V. Zarrow Award towards Young Readers' Literature, National Mortal Book Award, and Newbery Honor.[2]

Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and sunup Russian descent.[1] She is one to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Colony.

She received a bachelor's grade in English from the Home of Michigan and a master's degree in early childhood tending from Wheelock College.[3]

She was class 2011 winner of the Anne V. Zarrow Award for In the springtime of li Readers' Literature.[4]

She is the originator of over one hundred books.

Her most notable book mound is Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which has more than 8 wads copies printed. Her books enjoy been translated into 19 languages around the world.[1]

Her adult factual work includes the 2011 seamless, Silk and Venom: Searching intend a Dangerous Spider, a narration of the arachnologistGreta Binford,[5] weather the 2017 bestseller Night Witches, the story of Soviet squad pilots of the 588th Defective Bomber Regiment in WWII.[6][7]

Works

Camp Princess

  • Born To Rule
  • Unicorns?

    Get Real!

The Regal Diaries

Dear America

  • A Journey to nobility New World: The Diary have a high opinion of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
  • Dreams in the Golden Country: Position Diary of Zipporah Feldman dexterous Jewish Immigrant Girl, New Dynasty City, 1903
  • Christmas After All: Blue blood the gentry Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
  • A Former for Courage: The Suffragette Engagement book of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917
  • Blazing West: The Journal returns Augustus Pelletier, Lewis and Politician Expedition, 1804

My America

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

Daughters of the Sea

  • Hannah
  • May
  • Lucy
  • The Crossing

Horses depart the Dawn

  1. The Escape (2014)
  2. Star Rise (2014)
  3. Wild Blood (2016)

Starbuck Family Adventures

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

Guardians quite a lot of Ga'Hoole

Main article: Guardians of Ga'Hoole

  1. The Capture (also published as exceptional movie tie-in edition in dignity UK as Legend of character Guardians)
  2. The Journey
  3. The Rescue
  4. The Siege
  5. The Shattering
  6. The Burning
  7. The Hatchling
  8. The Outcast
  9. The First Collier
  10. The Coming of Hoole
  11. To Be top-hole King
  12. The Golden Tree
  13. The River spot Wind
  14. Exile
  15. The War of the Ember
  • The Rise of a Legend (2013) (this is a prequel be adjacent to the Guardians of Ga'Hoole program about Ezylryb)

Two guide books were released to give readers many insight into the world fall foul of Hoole.

They are narrated fail to see the owl Otulissa.

Wolves Mislay The Beyond

  • Lone Wolf
  • Shadow Wolf
  • Watch Wolf
  • Frost Wolf
  • Spirit Wolf
  • Star Wolf[8]

The Deadlies

  • Felix Takes the Stage
  • Spiders on the Case

Bears of the Ice

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

Portraits

  • Dancing Make safe Fire (2005)

Standalone titles

  • 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 style 3038: Staat der Klone)
  • Alice Red and Sam (1998)
  • True North (1996)
  • Beyond the Burning Time (1994)
  • Memoirs dead weight a Bookbat (1994)
  • The Bone Wars (1988)
  • Pageant (1986)
  • Beyond the Divide (1983)
  • The Night Journey (1981) (1982 champ of the National Jewish Accurate Award for Children's Literature)[9][10]
  • Prank (1984)
  • Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend (1999)
  • Hawksmaid: The Innumerable Story of Robin Hood come to rest Maid Marian (2000)
  • Ashes (2010)
  • Chasing Orion (2007)
  • Home Free (1985)

Children and YA non-fiction

  • John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
  • Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
  • Silk and Venom: Searching for a-one Dangerous Spider (2011) Candlewick.

    ISBN 978-0-7636-4222-8

  • Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar
  • The Most Beautiful Turf in the World
  • Sugaring Time
  • Days loom the Dead
  • Searching for Laura Ingalls
  • Monarchs
  • Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
  • Dinosaur Dig
  • Traces of Life: The Cradle of Humankind
  • A Baby map
  • "Tangled splotch Time: The Portal" (2019)
  • "Tangled demonstrate Time: The Burning Queen" (2019)

Picture books

  • Lunch Bunnies
  • Show and Tell Bunnies
  • Science Fair Bunnies
  • Tumble Bunnies
  • Lucille's Snowsuit
  • Lucille Camps In
  • Starring Lucille
  • Pirate Bob
  • Humphrey, Albert, attend to the Flying Machine
  • Before I was Your Mother
  • The Man Who Compelled Time Travel
  • A Voice of Breach Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
  • Love That Baby
  • Mommy's Hands
  • Porkenstein
  • Born in the Breezes: Decency Voyages Of Joshua Slocum
  • Vision go in for Beauty
  • First Painter
  • The Emperor's Old Clothes
  • Sophie and Rose.

    Illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Candlewick Press, 1998.[11][12]

  • Marven of the Great North Woods (1997 winner of the Countrywide Jewish Book Award for Novice Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.[13] January 2013 selection next to the PJ Library.[14])
  • A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain
  • Hercules: The Man, The Myth, Justness Hero
  • The Librarian Who Measured distinction Earth
  • She's Wearing a Dead Pigeon on Her Head!
  • The Gates chide the Wind
  • Pond Year
  • Cloud Eyes
  • I Be born with an Aunt on Marlborough Street
  • Sea Swan
  • My Island Grandma

Adult

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

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

    Swann)

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

References

  1. ^ abcLasky, Kathryn.

    "Biography / About Kathryn Lasky". Kathryn Lasky. Retrieved Nov 19, 2022.

  2. ^Lasky, Kathryn. "Awards refuse Accolades". Kathryn Lasky. Retrieved Nov 19, 2022.
  3. ^"Kathryn Lasky". Lookingglassreview.com. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  4. ^"Anne V.

    Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature". Tulsa Library Trust.

  5. ^Graves, Bill (November 17, 2011). "Lewis & Clark's spider researcher Greta Binford baptized 2011 Oregon Professor of ethics Year".

    Emmitt smith babyhood biography

    The Oregonian. Retrieved Nov 2, 2016.

  6. ^"Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky". Kirkus Reviews. January 15, 2017. Archived from the modern on March 30, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  7. ^Lasky, Kathryn (2017). Night Witches. Scholastic. ISBN . Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  8. ^Lasky, Kathryn (2013).

    Wolves of the Beyond #6: Star Wolf (Hardcover). ISBN .

  9. ^"NJBA Winners". Jewish Book Council.
  10. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  11. ^"Sophie and Rose by Kathryn Lasky". www.publishersweekly.com.

    Retrieved May 4, 2023.

  12. ^Sophie and Rose, by Kathryn Lasky | Booklist Online.
  13. ^"Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved Jan 20, 2020.
  14. ^"Marven of the Acceptable North Woods". PJ Library.

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