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Opal Irene Whiteley was born December 11, 1897, in Colton, Washington, the first of five children of Charles Edward and Lizzie Whiteley. [2] Charles was of French Canadian ancestry. [3] Beginning in childhood, Whiteley apocryphally claimed to be the daughter of French naturalist Henri, Prince of Orléans, [4] and an unnamed Austrian duchess. [5]
In 1985, Oppel wrote his first book Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure, [1] while at St. Michaels University School. He attended at the same time as actors Andrew Sabiston and Leslie Hope , fellow writers John Burns and Bert Archer , and just before the NBA's Steve Nash and Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield .
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 .
Pobby and Dingan is a novella by English author Ben Rice, which first appeared in issue 70 of Granta in Summer 2000 [1] and published in book form later that year. It was joint winner of the 2001 Somerset Maugham Award [2] and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. [3]
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Entertainment Weekly noted that the characters were "still a blast", however, the review also said "Colfer seems too dazzled by all the gadgetry and explosives jammed into this tale." [2] Disney's Family.com called the book "pretty confusing", though said it still retained the strengths of the series as a whole. [3]
The book won a Governor General's Award for children's literature in 2004. [1] [2] The book was a Michael L. Printz Award honor book. [3] The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon award winner. [4] The book won the Red Maple Award in 2006. [5] The book won a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award in 2005. [6]
Darkwing is a Junior Library Guild book. [1] It was well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist [2] and Kirkus Reviews. [3] Booklist's Michael Cart called the novel "richly plotted" and "fast-paced" and highlighted how "Oppel writes with keen insight and empathy about the condition of being other".