Kevin Crossley-Holland is a Carnegie Medal-winning author and a well-known poet. His Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim, sold well over 1 million copies and been translated into 25 languages. He has translated Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxon, and his retellings of traditional tales include Between Worlds, The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales. Chris Riddell is one of the country's finest children's book illustrators, and was Children's Laureate from 2015–17. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times – for Pirate Diary, Gulliver's Travels and The Sleeper and the Spindle. He is a political cartoonist for the Observer and has collaborated with Paul Stewart on the extremely popular Edge Chronicles and Muddle Earth series. In recent years he has had success writing and illustrating his own books, including the Ottoline stories and Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, which won a Costa Book Award – and he recently illustrated J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard.

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