Moonrise (Warriors)
First edition cover
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| Author | Erin Hunter |
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| Cover artist | Wayne McLoughlin |
| Country | Canada United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Warriors: The New Prophecy |
| Genre |
Children's literature Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
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Publication date
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July 21, 2005 (Canada) August 2, 2005 (United States and United Kingdom) |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback)/On-line (E-book) |
| Pages | 304 (first edition) |
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| LC Class | PZ7.H916625Mo 2005 |
| Preceded by | Midnight |
| Followed by | Dawn |
Moonrise is a children's fantasy novel, the second book in the Warriors: The New Prophecy series. The book, which follows the adventures of four groups of wild cats (called Clans), was written by Erin Hunter (a pseudonym used by Victoria Holmes, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, and Tui T. Sutherland), with cover art by Wayne McLoughlin. Moonrise follows six cats, Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw, Crowpaw, Feathertail, Stormfur, and Tawnypelt, as they return to their forest home from a journey to the ocean. They travel through the mountains, where they meet the Tribe of Rushing Water, a new group of cats first introduced in this novel. The Tribe cats are being attacked by a savage mountain lion called Sharptooth. The Clan cats eventually agree to help the Tribe get rid of Sharptooth. Series editor Victoria Holmes drew inspiration from locations such as the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.
Moonrise has been released in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats, and has been translated into French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and German. The book received mostly positive comments from reviews published in Booklist and Horn Book Review, which praised the plot and cliffhanger ending. However, a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews criticized the characters' confusing names and the writing style. Moonrise held the number two spot on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books for two weeks.
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 of Moonrise. 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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