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Kathryn Lasky Biography

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.

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To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

Enlightenment, Important, Tell, Thing, Think, Thinking

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Normal, Otulissa, Size, Spronk, Swelled, Wells

You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember. " Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.

Felt, Moon, Night, Thinking

We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws!

Fly, Gale, Ice, Joy, Love, Weather

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

Caribou, Cycling, Forever, Part, Simple, Wolf

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.

Animal, Bird, Directly, Meadow, Squirrels, Told

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Become, Fire, Flame, Flames, Spark, Sparks

Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger

Digger, Eat, Glad, Mean, Meet

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

Deceitful, Dolls, Intention, Lives, World

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Actions, Blood, Character, Our Actions, Soren

Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape. " -Gylfie

Escape, Job, Jobs, Moon, Thinking, World

My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Advocate, Issues, Mother, Parenthood, Rights, Womans

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

Ashamed, Eye, Eyes, See, Shame

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)

Brave, Desperate, Legends, Soren

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

Believe, Preparation, Reading, Widely, Writing

Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist----

Big, Champ, Crow, Moving, Owl, Scamps

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

Know, Knows, Powerful, Wells, Words

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

Females, Girl, Growing Up, Historical, Loved, Reading

Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.

Day, Fades, Flower, Gizzards, Stars, Twilight

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

Creatures, Lie, Lying, Scroom, Truth, Truth Is

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