Originally from Niagara Falls, he now lives in Los Angeles. He created the concept art for Coraline, the stop-motion animated film based on the book by Neil Gaiman. He is also the illustrator of Cats' Night Out, which won the Governor General’s Award The Dark, a finalist for the same award House Held Up by Trees, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Extra Yarn, a Caldecott Honor Book and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, also a Caldecott Honor Book. JON KLASSEN is the author-illustrator of This Is Not My Hat, winner of the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and I Want My Hat Back, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. Born on Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and in England and Ireland, and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children. Marina is a Brightwing bat with a strange metal band on her leg, Zephyr the mystical albino bat has an unusual gift, and Goth the carnivorous vampire bat is the.

He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent and The Boundless. Printz Honor Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by The Times (London).

His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and was adapted into an animated TV series and stage play. Shade is a young silverwing bat, the runt of his colony, and he’s determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum. KENNETH OPPEL is the author of numerous books for young readers. A small bat’s curiosity leads to an action-packed odyssey in the acclaimed Silverwing trilogy from Kenneth Oppel, now available as a collectible boxed set.

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