Kevin Crossley-Holland is an award-winning author and well-known poet. The first book of his Arthur trilogy, The Seeing Stone, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and his novella Storm won the Carnegie Medal. His other titles include King Alfred and the Ice Coffin and Arthur, the Always King, both illustrated by Chris Riddell; Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love; and Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland, illustrated by Frances Castle. Kevin Crossley-Holland lives in Norfolk, England.