Warriors: The New Prophecy
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Midnight Moonrise Dawn Starlight Twilight Sunset |
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| Author | Erin Hunter |
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| Illustrator | Wayne McLoughlin |
| Country | United Kingdom/United States/Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature Fantasy |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Published | May 10, 2005 - December 26, 2006 |
Warriors: The New Prophecy is the second arc in the Warriors juvenile fantasy novel series about feral cats. The arc comprises six novels which were published from 2005 to 2006: Midnight, Moonrise, Dawn, Starlight, Twilight, and Sunset. The novels are published by HarperCollins under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, which refers to authors Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry and plot developer/editor Victoria Holmes. The New Prophecy details the Clans' journey to a new home when humans destroy their original territories. The arc's major themes deal with forbidden love, the concept of nature versus nurture, and characters being a mix of good and bad. Though the novels have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and have been nominated for several awards, none of the novels in Warriors: The New Prophecy have won a significant literary award.
The series was written by Erin Hunter, a pseudonym used by authors Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, Tui Sutherland, and series editor Victoria Holmes. The pseudonym is used so that the individual novels in the series would not be shelved in different places in libraries. Victoria Holmes chose the name Erin because she liked the name, and Hunter because it matched the theme of feral cats. It also ensured that the books were shelved near those of Brian Jacques, an author that the writers, collectively known as "the Erins", liked.
The authors of the series drew inspiration from several natural locations in the United Kingdom. The four Clans (WindClan, RiverClan, ThunderClan, and ShadowClan) share a fictional forest based on England's New Forest.Loch Lomond is another location that influenced the setting. The herbs that the cats use for healing is based on information found in Culpeper's Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper. Some other sources of inspiration for the series include the works of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
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