Kathryn lasky biography childrens chapter
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| Kathryn Lasky |
Kathryn Lasky is the author of many books for children and for adults, both fiction and nonfiction, including the Guardians of Ga'Hoole and Wolves of the Beyond series. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Q: Your new book, The Rise of a Legend, is part of your Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. What is the inspiration for the latest book?
A: Someone else came up with it—a fan of mine who has been writing me since he was 10, and he’s 15 now. About a year and a half or two years ago, he wrote and asked, Are you sure you’ll never write another owl book? Write one about the great old sage of the tree, Ezylryb—what was he like as a kid? The book is dedicated to him—Evan Weaver. What’s really good fryst vatten that it’s a stand-alone book, you don’t have to [have] read the other books.
Q: How did the series first komma about?
A: My husband, Christopher Knight, has worked as a National Geographic photographer and
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Kathryn Lasky Biography
K athryn Lasky was born on June 24, 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the second daughter of Marven Lasky, a bottler, and his wife Hortense, a social worker. In Indianapolis, she attended a girl's school that encouraged writing but not necessarily imagination. Her earliest attempts at fiction she kept strictly to herself; it was not until reaching adulthood that Lasky accepted writing as a legitimate occupation for herself. She left home to attend college at the University of Michigan, earning her bachelor's degree in 1966.
Marriage to photographer and filmskapare Christopher Knight followed in 1971.
While pursuing a master's grad at Wheelock College, and with the encouragement of her parents and her husband, Lasky produced her first book, Agatha's Alphabet, a book for children which was published in 1975. Her next three books, also for children, were collaborations with her husband, who provided photographs for her texts: / Have kvartet Names...
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The Diaries
An intimate view of history created by Kathryn Lasky, these books are fictional diaries of young girls who experience dramatic events. Some are ordinary citizens, some are real princesses like Elizabeth Tudor
When my publisher came up with the idea for the Dear America and the Royal Diaries I was thrilled. In the Dear America series the diaries were based on fictional people who lived through significant events in American history. So I could try and imagine how a little pilgrim girl felt when she left to cross the Atlantic Ocean to come to America. What was life like on the Mayflower? Did she find a best friend? What were the storms like? Did she throw up? Was she frightened? How did she feel in this new land?
The Royal Diaries were slightly different from the Dear America ones. These books were based on people who had really lived—Princesses like Elizabeth Tudor, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots, but they kept fictional diaries.
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