Warriors

This series in which writer Erin Hunter has conjured up an amazing world of feral cat tribes which struggle for survival literally right outside your own backyard! Our library has the series of six Warrior books: Into The Wild-1, Fire and Ice-2, Forest of Secrets-3,
Rising Storm-4, A Dangerous Path-5, The Darkest Hour-6.

Erin Hunter is the joint pseudonym for three separate people working on the Warriors series of books: Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Victoria Holmes.

Victoria Holmes comes up with the storylines and makes sure the books stay consistent and writers Kate Cary and Cherith Baldry, who both live in the UK, take it in turns to write the books. They say that they have always loved cats and fantasy stories and came up with the single name, Erin Hunter, to avoid confusing their readers by having books from the same series filed in different places on the bookshelves.

They are inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, they enjoy creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by their interest in astrology and standing stones.

Kate and Cherith and their fascination of animal interaction and the way they can read all sorts of hidden motivation into what cats do. To find new locations for the cats in Warriors to explore, she and Cherith Baldry with often go on long walks in the woods. Watching their cats and other people also helps them to see how cats behave in certain situations.