Shade challenges Chinook to look at the sun, an act forbidden by the owls. He lives with his mother, Ariel, and is bullied by other newborns, especially Chinook and his friends, for being the runt of his colony. Shade is a young Silverwing bat whose father disappeared before he was born. Silverwing is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after Darkwing. 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. 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.Silverwing is a best-selling children's novel, written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins.
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. 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. In his Silverwing series Oppel spun a contemporary fantasy about the world of bats.
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