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Silverwing is a children's novel written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of the Silverwings, a colony of silver-haired bats . Silverwing is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after Darkwing .
Oppel moved to England and wrote a number of books during that period, gleaning several ideas while working at typing students' papers. From 1995 to 1996, Oppel worked as an editor at Quill & Quire, the trade magazine of the Canadian publishing industry. He wrote four books for the Silverwing novel series: Silverwing, Sunwing, Firewing and ...
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Peters said the novel has "plenty of rousing action; special effects on a grand scale; a leavening of humor as well as stimulating thoughts on the nature of life, death, the afterlife, loyalty, courage, honesty, and other essential topics more than compensate for iffy internal logic".
Sarah Ellis of Quill & Quire called it a "book of big effects" and a "natural for the on-screen generation." [1] Kirkus Reviews wrote that it "stands well on its own" and praised the plot and the characterisation. [2]
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