Kathryn Lasky


Kathryn Lasky 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.
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Biography

Kathryn Lasky grew up in Indianapolis. She is Jewish and of Russian descent. She is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Deer Isle, Maine. 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

  • Born To Rule
  • ''Unicorns? Get Real!''

The Royal Diaries

Dear America

My America

  • Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Immigrant 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

  1. The Escape
  2. Star Rise
  3. ''Wild Blood''

Starbuck Family Adventures

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

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

  1. The Capture
  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 a King
  12. The Golden Tree
  13. The River of Wind
  14. Exile
  15. The War of the Ember
  • The Rise of a Legend
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 WolfShadow WolfWatch WolfFrost WolfSpirit Wolf
  • ''Star Wolf''

The Deadlies

Felix Takes the Stage
  • ''Spiders on the Case''

Bears of the Ice

Quest of the CubsThe Den of Forever Frost
  • ''The Keepers of the Key''

Portraits

  • ''Dancing Through Fire''

Standalone titles

Children and YA non-fiction

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.
  • Marven of the Great North Woods
  • 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
  • The Widow of Oz
  • ''Night Gardening''

''Calista Jacobs'' mystery

This series for adult readers was also written under the name Kathryn Lasky Knight.
  • Trace Elements
  • Mortal Words
  • Mumbo Jumbo
  • ''Dark Swan''