Kevin Crossley-Holland

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February 07, 1941

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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet and prize-winning author for children. His books include Waterslain Angels, a detective story set in north Norfolk in 1955, and Moored Man: A Cycle of North Norfolk Poems; Gatty's Tale, a medieval pilgrimage novel; and the Arthur trilogy (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing-Places and King of the Middle March), which combines historical fiction with the retelling of Arthurian legend.

The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.

Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include The Penguin Book of...more

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Books by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Average rating: 3.80 · 4,043 ratings · 375 reviews · 89 distinct works

	The Seeing Stone (Arthur Trilogy, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions	My rating:
	The Norse Myths 4.14 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 1980 — 18 editions	My rating:
	At the Crossing Places (Arthur Trilogy, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions	My rating:
	King of the Middle March (Arthur Trilogy, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Crossing To Paradise 3.70 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology 3.99 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Once Upon A Poem 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bracelet of Bones 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The World of King Arthur and His Court: People, Places, Legend, and Lore by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Peter Maloney (Illustrations) 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Folk-Tales of the British Isles 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Arthur Trilogy (3 books)
by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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Quotes by Kevin Crossley-Holland

“Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland

tags: inspirational-life-death-fate

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“You can teach someone a skill but you can't teach them spirit.”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland, Crossing To Paradise

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“Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children.
There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.”
― Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths

tags: norse-myth , ragnarok

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