凱瑟琳·拉斯基多年來一直對貓頭鷹有著強烈的愛好。幾年前，她開始對貓頭鷹及其生活習第二冊性進行廣泛研究，她原計劃寫一部關於貓頭鷹的非小說類文學作品，書中配上丈夫拍攝的照片作為插畫。然而後來她意識到，由於貓頭鷹是夜行性動物，易受驚嚇，不易被人發現，這個計劃開展起來將會非常睏難。於是她決定改寫一部講述貓頭鷹世界的奇幻小說。在小說中，貓頭鷹會說話，會思考，還會做夢，盡管如此，她還是會在這個虛構的世界裏加入描寫它們自然本性的內容。

凱瑟琳·拉斯基寫過很多小說和非小說類文學作品。她和丈夫閤作著有多部非小說類文學作品，包括：榮獲“紐伯瑞兒童文學奬”銀奬的《糖衣時代》，《世界上最美麗的屋頂》，由於在非小說類文學方麵作齣的傑齣貢獻，她還榮獲“波士頓環球報號角書奬”和“華盛頓知識類兒童讀物奬”。

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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