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Kevin crosley holland biography of rory

          In these pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland visits the foreign land of childhood.

        1. In these pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland visits the foreign land of childhood.
        2. One of my favourites is Kevin Crossley-Holland's, published in the s, though it keeps fairly close to the earliest extant version.
        3. Manor life for Arthur de Calidicot is a complex struggle of terrible secrets and haunting jealousies.
        4. Year-old Rory Branagan lives with his mum, his annoying older brother Seamus and his auntie Jo (who isn't really his auntie but instead rents.
        5. Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems.

          6. Manor life for Arthur de Calidicot is a complex struggle of terrible secrets and haunting jealousies....

          Kevin Crossley-Holland

          English translator, children's author and poet (born 1941)

          Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet.

          His best known work is probably the Arthur trilogy (2000–2003),[1] for which he won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize[2] and other recognition.

          Crossley-Holland won the annual Carnegie Medal for his 1985 novella Storm.[3] For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works.[4]

          Life and career

          Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire.

          He grew up in Whiteleaf, a village in the Chilterns. His father was Peter Crossley-Holland, a composer and ethnomusicologist; his mother was the potter and gallerist Joan Crossley-Holland (née Cowper).[5][6] He attended Bryanston School in Dorset, followed by St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where after failing his first exams he