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American children's writer (born 1944)
Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944)
[1] 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 .
[2]
Biography
Kathryn Lasky grew up in
Indianapolis , descendant of a line of
Russian
Jews .
[1] 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 .
[3]
She was the 2011 winner of the
Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature .
[4]
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.
[1]
Her adult nonfiction work includes the 2011 book, Silk and Venom: Searching for a Dangerous Spider , a biography of the
arachnologist
Greta Binford ,
[5] and the 2017 bestseller Night Witches , the story of
Soviet women pilots of the
588th Night Bomber Regiment in
WWII .
[6]
[7]
Works
Camp Princess
Born To Rule
Unicorns? Get Real!
The Royal Diaries
Dear America
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
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
Hannah
May
Lucy
The Crossing
Horses of the Dawn
The Escape (2014)
Star Rise (2014)
Wild Blood (2016)
Starbuck Family Adventures
Double Trouble Squared
Shadows in the Water
A Voice in the Wind
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
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.
Wolves Of 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 the Cubs
The Den of Forever Frost
The Keepers of the Key
Portraits
Dancing Through 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 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)
[9]
[10]
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
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
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, 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.
[11]
[12]
Marven of the Great North Woods (1997 winner of the
National Jewish Book Award for Children's Picture Books illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.
[13] January 2013 selection by the
PJ Library .
[14] )
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
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
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a
b
c Lasky, Kathryn.
"Biography / About Kathryn Lasky" . Kathryn Lasky . Retrieved November 19, 2022 .
^ Lasky, Kathryn.
"Awards and Accolades" . Kathryn Lasky . Retrieved November 19, 2022 .
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"Kathryn Lasky" . Lookingglassreview.com. Retrieved November 22, 2011 .
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"Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature" . Tulsa Library Trust.
^ Graves, Bill (November 17, 2011).
"Lewis & Clark's spider researcher Greta Binford named 2011 Oregon Professor of the Year" .
The Oregonian . Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
^
"Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky" .
Kirkus Reviews . January 15, 2017. Archived from
the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
^ Lasky, Kathryn (2017).
Night Witches .
Scholastic .
ISBN
978-0-545-68298-5 . Retrieved May 28, 2018 .
^ Lasky, Kathryn (2013). Wolves of the Beyond #6: Star Wolf (Hardcover) .
ISBN
978-0545279628 .
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"NJBA Winners" . Jewish Book Council.
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"Past Winners" . Jewish Book Council . Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
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"Sophie and Rose by Kathryn Lasky" . www.publishersweekly.com . Retrieved May 4, 2023 .
^
Sophie and Rose, by Kathryn Lasky | Booklist Online .
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"Past Winners" . Jewish Book Council . Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
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"Marven of the Great North Woods" . PJ Library.
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