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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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What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why, it's ME! Twilight, the Great Gray, Tiger of the sky --- Light of the Night, Most beautiful, An avian delight. I beam --- I gleam --- I'm a livin' flying dream. Watch me roll off this cloud and pop on back. This is flying. I ain't no hack.

Beautiful, Dream, Light, Livin, Strong, Twilight

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

Expedition, History, Man, Men, Moon, Thinking

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

Become, Heart, Owl, Stories, True

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

Brave, Desperate, Legends, Soren

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

Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring. Through our hollow bones it flows To each feather and downy fluff. Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us, Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts Let tranquillity flood our veins. Come to us and drink your fill So we might end our pains. - The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats

Blood, Dream, Drink, Pain, Urge

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Helping, Helps, Literature, Mathematics, Study, Thinking

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

Become, Fire, Flame, Flames, Spark, Sparks

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.

Know, Knows, Want, Wanted

What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore. " -Soren

Feed, Feet, Giggle, Giving, Heart, Weensy

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

Dream, Dreams, Marie, Nothing, Weigh

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

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

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

Kid, Kids, Know, Princess, Respected, Years

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

Believe, Preparation, Reading, Widely, Writing

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

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

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

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

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

Aegolius, Blessing, Humility, Owl, Serve, Way

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Arithmetic, Happens, Possible, Study, Words

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