SUNW – Quill&Quire’s Best Kids Books of ’99, #1 Fiction Pick

“Oppel’s thrilling saga of a young bat’s journey to find his long-lost father was the first or second pick of most of our panelists. “Great story. More depth than Harry Potter,” says Judy Sarick, co-owner of the Children’s Book Store in Toronto. “A natural for the on-screen generation,” wrote Sarah Ellis in Q&Q. “The pace is hectic, the villains are dastardly, and the narrative style is that of a series of extremely visual scenes. Oppel has floated free of the conventions of the realistic animal story and invented something new.”

– Quill&Quire’s Best Kids Books of ’99, #1 Fiction Pick