« previous 1 2 3 next » sort by « previous 1 2 3 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. shelved 295,245 times Showing 30 distinct works.Oppel writes with keen insight and empathy about the condition of being “other” in the context of a richly plotted, fast-paced story that-though sometimes too heavily anthropomorphized-is captivating reading from beginning to end. Books by Kenneth Oppel Kenneth Oppel Average rating 4.03 Clearly the world is poised on the brink of remarkable change, and the future belongs to these two. Dusk’s real nemesis, however, is a beast (a “felid”) called Carnassial, who is the first of his kind to be carnivorous, and like Dusk, is shunned by his own. Predictably, the others regard him as a mutant to be shunned-all but his father, who wisely considers his son’s differences as gifts. Only Dusk, youngest son of the colony’s leader, has made an evolutionary leap not only can he fly, he can also see at night, using echo vision.

The tone and artistic ambition of this series of bestsellers has been compared to the classic animal novel Watership Down. It tells the story of a colony of Silverwing bats. Darkwing - Kenneth Oppel Before there were bats like Shade, Marina or even Goth, there was a young chiroptera small arboreal glidernamed Dusk. In this ambitious new stand-alone fantasy, he turns the clock back 65 million years to imagine the world of the bats’ earliest ancestors, which he calls “chiropters.” These tree-dwelling creatures are flightless, using their wings (which they call “sails”) to glide through the air, from tree to tree. Silverwing is a best-selling fiction novel, written by Kenneth Oppel, published in 1997. Kenneth Oppel Darkwing (Silverwing, 1) Hardcover Illustrated, Augby Kenneth Oppel (Author), Keith Thompson (Illustrator) 157 ratings Part of: The Silverwing Trilogy Kindle 14.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 16.83 62 Used from 1.43 15 New from 12.84 2 Collectible from 14.81 Paperback 49.31 8 Used from 2. In his Silverwing series Oppel spun a contemporary fantasy about the world of bats.

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