Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal–winning author,
as well as a poet, librettist, reteller, and teacher. His Arthur
trilogy won worldwide critical acclaim, sold well over one million
copies, and has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has
translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings include
Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland, illustrated by
Frances Castle, and Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki,
illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love. After seven years teaching in the
US, where he was a Distinguished Fulbright Visiting Professor at
St. Olaf College and held an Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the
University of St. Thomas, both in Minnesota. Kevin Crossley-Holland
and his American wife now live on the north Norfolk coast in East
Anglia.
Jeffrey Alan Love is the award-winning author and
illustrator of The Hero’s Quest, The Thousand Demon Tree, and Notes
from the Shadowed City. He’s the winner of the 2019 Dutch Zilveren
Penseel (Silver Brush) Award for Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor,
and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland, the recipient of the 2017 World
Fantasy Award for Best Artist and the 2018 British Fantasy Award
for Best Artist. Jeffrey Alan Love lives in Northern California.
Equally spare and forceful are the masterful illustrations. . . .
each is a tour de force of design and execution. Powerful, moving,
relevant.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The author’s storytelling is direct with bold scenes, occasionally
sinister twists, and touches of optimism. . . Love’s striking
expressionistic illustrations with ominous creatures, rugged
terrain, and dark colors set just the right tone for this
distinctive collection.
—Booklist (starred review)
Although the tales are set in the past, there’s an immediacy and
intimacy to the narrative voice that brings them right into the
space of reader or listener. . . . With their unexpected turns and
in the author’s fresh, poetic language, these tales become
exceptionally mysterious and captivating.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
Lyrical and haunting. . . The illustrations by Jeffrey Alan Love
are stark and dramatic. . . a must-read for fans of fantasy and
mythology, especially Viking lore.
—School Library Connection (starred review)
Crossley-Holland's superb storytelling is perfectly paired with
Love's powerful acrylic paint, ink and pencil-on-board art, which
invokes the outsize effect the inhabitants of these other worlds
have on the people of Middle Earth.
—Shelf Awareness
A beautiful and lyrical book. . . Unique and intriguing.
—School Library Journal
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