About: Kenneth Oppel   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, he spent his childhood in Victoria, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has also lived in England and Ireland. Oppel is married to Philippa Sheppard, and has three children: Sophia, Nate and Julia. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. The author has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for English language children's literature (for Airborn) and The Times Children's Novel of 2005 (for Skybreaker, named a 2006 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association).

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Kenneth Oppel
rdfs:comment
  • Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, he spent his childhood in Victoria, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has also lived in England and Ireland. Oppel is married to Philippa Sheppard, and has three children: Sophia, Nate and Julia. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. The author has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for English language children's literature (for Airborn) and The Times Children's Novel of 2005 (for Skybreaker, named a 2006 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association).
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, he spent his childhood in Victoria, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has also lived in England and Ireland. Oppel is married to Philippa Sheppard, and has three children: Sophia, Nate and Julia. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Oppel is probably best known for his trilogy of Silverwing, Sunwing, and Firewing. His most recent books are Airborn (2004) and its sequel, Skybreaker (2005), and Darkwing (2007), the prequel to his Silverwing trilogy. Starclimber, the third book in the Matt Cruse series, was released in Canada in September 2008. It was released in the United States in December 2008 and in the U.K. in May of 2009. The author has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for English language children's literature (for Airborn) and The Times Children's Novel of 2005 (for Skybreaker, named a 2006 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association).
is Author of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software