These include Sugaring Time , a Newbery Honor Book, The Weaver s Gift , winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for nonfiction, and Think Like an Eagle . Kathryn Lasky s book, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth , is a picture book biography of the ancient mathematician Eratosthenes. In recognition of the body of her nonfiction work, Kathryn Lasky received the Washington Post-Children s Book Guild Award in 1986. People often ask me how and why I do both fiction and nonfiction, says Kathryn Lasky. I am equally attracted to both types of writing because for me the most important thing is that a story be real.
Real stories can be either fiction or nonfiction.
Even in my nonfiction books, telling a story is more important than reciting the facts. I still don t really know when I began thinking of myself as a real writer. It might have been relatively recently like when I first got paid for a manuscript. But that might have been only when I first dared to call myself a writer to the world at large. I think that perhaps I always felt that this was my profession, announced or unannounced, paid or unpaid.