- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Children's Books; 3 edition (19 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340743484
- ISBN-13: 978-0340743485
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.9 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 146,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'SILVERWING is top-notch fantasy adventure writing. Go for it.' (Daily Telegraph )
'cracking stories, brimming with adventure, redolent of great mythical sagas of the past, alive with invention, thoughtful - at times profound and probing - and never faltering when it comes to thrills and page-turning power.' (Carousel )
'Fast faced, cliff-hanging action . . . Recommend this one.' (School Library Journal )
'Totally compelling . . . an excellent adventure story.' (The Scotsman )
'Oppel's achievement is to have created much more than an action adventure involving bats. This first powerful novel successfully creates a new fantasy world.' (Literary Review )
'A JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE SEAGULL of the bat community . . . this epic journey is gripping, and details of bat life are inventively and convincingly imagined.' (Publisher's Weekly )
FIREWING: 'The third book in a riveting saga about bats ... capable of enthralling both 9-11s, as well as an older audience.' (Achuka website )
'A fascinating, gripping adventure story' (Teen Titles )
'cracking stories, brimming with adventure, redolent of great mythical sagas of the past, alive with invention, thoughtful - at times profound and probing - and never faltering when it comes to thrills and page-turning power.' (Carousel )
'Fast faced, cliff-hanging action . . . Recommend this one.' (School Library Journal )
'Totally compelling . . . an excellent adventure story.' (The Scotsman )
'Oppel's achievement is to have created much more than an action adventure involving bats. This first powerful novel successfully creates a new fantasy world.' (Literary Review )
'A JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE SEAGULL of the bat community . . . this epic journey is gripping, and details of bat life are inventively and convincingly imagined.' (Publisher's Weekly )
FIREWING: 'The third book in a riveting saga about bats ... capable of enthralling both 9-11s, as well as an older audience.' (Achuka website )
'A fascinating, gripping adventure story' (Teen Titles )
Daily Telegraph
'SILVERWING is top-notch fantasy adventure writing. Go for it.'
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A bat, Shade,is lost in a storm & is trying to get home.,
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This review is from: Silverwing (Paperback)
A young bat called Shade broke the law of the Silverwing bats by looking at the sun. On his first hibernation to Hibernaculam, he is blown away to an island. There he meets a banded Brightwing called Marina. Shade and Marina then begin a perilous journey to find Shade's colony and escape the giant cannibal bats Goth and Throbb. This book is exellent and it would appeal to children aged between 9~15. A full *****.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Please write another one Kenneth Oppel!,
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This review is from: Silverwing (Paperback)
Bats are one of my favourite animals. When I finished this book I wanted to read it all over again ( which I did - about 10 times), then I read Sunwing and Firewing and am now desperately hoping that another one will be out soon. Mr Oppel, if you're reading this, please write a 4th book. These books are thrilling and the idea is very original. If I could wish on a shooting star it would be that this series go on for ever and ever.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book.,
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This review is from: Silverwing (Paperback)
When I first read this book 10 years ago it blew me away. I was in university at the time, and doing a children's lit course, and read a number of award winners to supplement the 15 or so books we read for the course. This book was one I picked up that summer and I have been a huge fan of Kenneth Oppel ever since. This story is a coming-of-age story; it is the story of Shade a young silverwing bat who is the runt in his colony. During the annual migration to the colony's winter roost, he is separated from his friends and family. Shade sets out to find his colony and alone and desperate he braves the outside world. As winter approaches he must find his colony or a safe haven quickly, or else he will perish.
This book is very well written, told in the black and white world of a bat and echo vision. The story is fascinating and the adventure runs non-stop. The first time I read this I could not put it down. This time through I took it a little slower and really savoured the book. It won 11 literary awards and has numerous sequels now. Pick it up for an excellent read.
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