Kenneth Oppel: yeayyy! He is all kinds of awesomeness. His first series (Silverwing, Sunwing, Firewing) is about a bat who's the runt of the litter and he gets lost while they're migrating, and it's completely true to bat behaviour but it also has scary Mexican vampire bat gods and cross-species romance and serious hero-journeys. (Think Watership Down for bats.) Definitely one to read for yourself and to recommend to middle-grade readers. I loved the Airborn series. And he wrote a couple of my favourite picture books: Peg and the Whale and Peg and the Yeti (great kick-butt heroine if you're looking for one). I'm so excited to get my copy of his latest: His Dark Endeavour, about the childhood of Victor Frankenstein!
I'm going to run to my library and get Curse Dark as Gold, which I remember seeing and thinking it was a great title, but now I know I should pick it up. Ooh, and the library also has the first Montmaray book. Thanks!
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Date: 2011-09-11 07:39 am (UTC)From:I'm going to run to my library and get Curse Dark as Gold, which I remember seeing and thinking it was a great title, but now I know I should pick it up. Ooh, and the library also has the first Montmaray book. Thanks!