Kenneth Oppel
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

HALF BROTHER Q&A with Kenneth Oppel

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Reprinted from A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust I have been a fan of Kenneth Oppel since I read his Silverwing series about four years...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Airborn: 125 Million Kilometres Around the World

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    Two weeks ago in Ottawa, I got to meet Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk , who took my book Airborn  with him on his six-m...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What I've Been Up To -- Part II

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  After the Calgary-Banff Wordfest, the Half Brother book tour took me off to Victoria BC, my hometown, where I was very glad to see, final...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Hail Britannia! Advance love for HALF BROTHER

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HALF BROTHER will be published in January in the United Kingdom by the fabulous David Fickling Books, which brought the world The Curious I...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

What I've Been Up To -- Part I

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 For the past four weeks I've been travelling around Canada and the United States, talking up my latest novel, Half Brother . It started...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Rejected chimps find shelter at Fauna Foundation

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By KATHRYN GREENAWAY The Montreal Gazette Kenneth Oppel wanted to write a book for teens about chimpanzees - specifically about chimpanzees ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Ape becomes human; humans go ape

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HALF BROTHER Reviewed by Erika Ritter From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 There is something particularly poi...
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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel is the author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide, and been adapted as an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn was winner of a Michael L Printz Honor Book Award, and the Canadian Governor General's Award for Children’s Literature; its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by the London Times. His novel Half Brother won both the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year Award as well as its Young Adult Award -- a first in the two awards' history. His latest book is THE NEST. Born on Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, England, Ireland, and now lives in Toronto with his wife and children. Visit him at www.kennethoppel.ca
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