凯瑟琳·拉斯基多年来一直对猫头鹰有着强烈的爱好。几年前，她开始对猫头鹰及其生活习第二册性进行广泛研究，她原计划写一部关于猫头鹰的非小说类文学作品，书中配上丈夫拍摄的照片作为插画。然而后来她意识到，由于猫头鹰是夜行性动物，易受惊吓，不易被人发现，这个计划开展起来将会非常困难。于是她决定改写一部讲述猫头鹰世界的奇幻小说。在小说中，猫头鹰会说话，会思考，还会做梦，尽管如此，她还是会在这个虚构的世界里加入描写它们自然本性的内容。

凯瑟琳·拉斯基写过很多小说和非小说类文学作品。她和丈夫合作著有多部非小说类文学作品，包括：荣获“纽伯瑞儿童文学奖”银奖的《糖衣时代》，《世界上最美丽的屋顶》，由于在非小说类文学方面作出的杰出贡献，她还荣获“波士顿环球报号角书奖”和“华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖”。

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Book Description

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is The New York Times bestselling book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey.

Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness and nobility reign. He must summon all his courage to defy his destiny — and the embodiment of evil that is his mother.

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6–The fascistic Pure Ones, a tribe of barn owls who believe that they alone are fit to rule, lost their king, the evil Kludd, during a great battle in The Burning (Scholastic, 2004). In this seventh book in the series, Kludd's sinister widow Nyra continues to plot to conquer all of the owl kingdoms, especially the heroic, egalitarian owls who dwell in the great tree of Ga'Hoole. She raises her hatchling son Nyroc to one day take his father's place and teaches him to believe in the power of hate. But the older he grows, the more he disagrees with his mother's ways, and after he learns the horrible truth about a deadly ceremony the Pure Ones have planned for him, he realizes that he must leave his home and his mother. While Lasky has combined fascinating details of how real owls live with her imaginary civilization, the story lacks any humor that might relieve its dreariness. The Hatchling often lumbers rather than soars.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　–Walter Minkel, New York Public Library

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.5