She is the most smart, clever, cunning, pretty, brave, fearless person ~ever~ and everyone loves her and if you don't love her, then you're evil! Look at how nice Marian is, she remembers a leper woman's name! She is the bestest member of the Merry Men and even though she resents being left out of the stories, she's totes okay with it because she's PERF. Maid Marian is some kind of hawk mastering master and surpasses even her father at a very young age. It carries itself as a historical fiction novel - but by the end of it, everything falls apart and is a failure of what is supposed to be a historical fantasy AU. This book, however, is a hot sweaty nonsensical mess of a novel. I loved Kathryn Lasky's GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE series. Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky soars to magnificent new heights here, giving us a bold tale of bravery and romance. You thought that you knew the legend, but this is the untold story. As Maid Marian, Matty joins Fynn and his Merry Men, famously robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Determined to fight, Matty's friend Fynn becomes Robin Hood. The sheriff of Nottingham is rising to power, and a true king has been kidnapped. The beautiful merlin Marigold becomes Matty's closest winged companion and her fiercest ally.
She begins to understand their thoughts and even speak their language. But when Matty's mother is murdered before her very eyes and her father, a nobleman, is reduced to poverty, Matty's life changes.Īs the daughter of Nottingham's most famous falconer, she finds a new destiny in the hawks her father keeps. Matty has been raised to dance well, embroider exquisitely, and marry nobly. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Before she was Maid Marian, she was Matty.
She has also received the Washington Post's Children's Book Guild Award for her contribution to children's nonfiction. She has received many awards for her titles including Sugaring Time which was a Newberry Honor Book The Night Journey which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children Pageant which was an ALA Notable Children's book and Beyond the Burning Time which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Many of her books are illustrated with photographs by her husband, Christopher Knight. She has written more than seventy books for children and young adults on everything from historical fiction to picture books and nonfiction books including the Dear America books and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Her first book, I Have Four Names for My Grandfather, was published while she was teaching. She majored in English in college and after graduation wrote for various magazines and taught. Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 1944, and knew she wanted to be a writer from the time she was ten.
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