Kevin Crossley-Holland Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Arthur Trilogy Books
The Seeing Stone | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At the Crossing Places | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King of the Middle March | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Viking Sagas Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Havelok The Dane | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Horn: A Medieval Romance | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream of a Meeting | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beowulf | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storm | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fox and the Cat | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quest for Olwen | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stones Remain | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tale of Taliesin | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Arthur's World | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossing to Paradise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gatty's Tale | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Outsiders | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Waterslain Angels | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thor And The Master Of Magic | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heartsong | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arthur: The Always King | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
The Callow Pit Coffer | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Children | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pedlar of Swaffham | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea Stranger | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fire-Brother | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Petal and Stone | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Earth-Father | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wildman | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dathera Dad | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleeping Nanna | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Sun and Over the Moon | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Long Tom and the Dead Hand | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King Who Was and Will Be | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of King Arthur and His Court | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ugly Duckling | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How Many Miles To Bethlehem? | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stars of Mine | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Riddlemaster | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harald in Byzantium | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Publication Order of Collections
Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon Stories | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norse Myths | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rain-Giver: Poems | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dream House: Poems | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Moon | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from the Mabinogion | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Waterslain and Other Poems | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Painting Room | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected British Folk Tales | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Language of Yes | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Old Stories | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Short! | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poems From East Anglia | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enchantment | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from the Old World | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Poems | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Viking! | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightingale That Shrieked And Other Tales | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moored Man | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Short Too! | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mountains of Norfolk | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Breaking Hour | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Between Worlds | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Animals Grimm | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norse Tales | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Across the Rainbow Bridge | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Oxford Book of Travel Verse | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Exeter Book of Riddles | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Lands | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hidden Roads | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Walker Studio Books
Tales from the Inner City | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Louis Undercover | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jane, the Fox & Me | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Animals | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Singing Bones | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Artist's Alphabet | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trees | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Take! | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Curiosity | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Greek Myths and Mazes | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Endangered Animals | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earth Verse | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Dog, Little Dog | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surprising Birds | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Town | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magnificent Birds | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dam | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine Worlds in Nine Nights | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norse Tales | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darwin's Rival | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House by The Lake | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My First Book of London | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One of a Kind | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bang! | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masters of Disguise | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Queen in the Cave | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Anglo-Saxon World | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Folk-Tales of the British Isles | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Axe Age, Wolf Age | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Northern Lights | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Horseman | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Treasury of Ghost Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts and Goblins | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Why The Fish Laughed And Other Tales | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a YA fiction and historical romance author. He won the Carnegie Medal in 1985 for Storm. Crossley has written many books for children and adults in classic retellings, poetry, and anthologies.
The Seeing Stone was awarded the Smarties Prize Bronze medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and The Arthur trilogy won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into 21 languages.
Crossley has written and presented multiple BBC radio programs. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and for years he held a university post in Minnesota as an endowed chair in the humanities.
He lectures abroad representing the British Council and sometimes leads sessions for teachers and librarians. Crossley offers poetry and prose workshops on some of his novels.
The Norse Myths
The novel looms up through the winter mists, grim, cold, and magnificent. They are fatalist stories of gods who are not only doomed but already know their doom. They are aware of how they’ll die; the only remaining question is when the twilight gods will occur.
Thor will defeat Jormungand while the Midgard serpent, large enough to surround the entire world, staggers backward nine steps and later fall dead, poisoned by the serpent’s venom.
Odin will be murdered by the great wolf Fenrir, and the son of Odin will later kill Fenrir. All have no option but to face their end with courage. Might there rise a message of hope for them before their final day?
Like humans, the Norse gods live in the knowledge and examination of their weakness and mortality. The author serves a well-written and accessible retelling of the stories of Norse mythology introducing the divinity in whom the Vikings believed before the fearsome raiders from the north converted to Christianity.
Kevin provides an easy and direct way for readers to get to know the Norse Pantheon. All the gods, including the arrogant Odin, king of the gods, boast about his conquests, both military and erotic. The thunder god Thor carried a hammer like a working human being and was said to be popular among normal people of the Viking world.
Loki, the trickster god in the course of the myths, goes from a mischief-maker who brings trouble and later resolves it. He is a malignant figure looking forward to bringing destruction for its sake.
The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians involves a series of stories filled with images from Pre-Christian Europe. Humans, beasts, and gods were involved in drinking, strength contesting lusty activities, and schemes grabbing gold.
The Norse Pantheon includes Thor, the thundering powerhouse, and Odin, the most fearsome and wisest of the gods. Their war loves, and adventures take the reader through divine and mortal worlds. Kevin Crossley shows the passion, boundless spirit, and brevity that was in the Norse world.
Crossley-Holland combines scholarship with a strong prose style making myths readily available to curious readers. The gods and goddesses are exciting characters and multifaceted in that they get to be worshipped for multiple reasons.
The author retells the Norse myths with an excellent introduction offering historical and mythological backgrounds as she suggests parallels with myths in different parts of the world. The tales are retold with humor and enthusiasm to make the reader engaged to the end.
The Seeing Stone
The seeing Stone is the debut in the Arthur Trilogy. The story is a captivating, imaginative, and compelling story that tells the story of a 13-year-old boy in England living near the Welsh Border in 1199 and 1200.
Arthur of Caldicot is the son of Sir John and Brother to Serle and Sian. He lives in a castle located on the borderline of Wales and England. He has several friends among the servants, much to his father’s shock. Sometimes he helps with daily tasks delegated to his friends before later his father comes to forbid.
Arthur hasn’t been good with a sword, but he’s excellent when it comes to words and bow. He wants to be a knight, before being betrothed to his cousin Grace. His father’s mysterious friend father Merlin, the wizard, gives him an obsidian stone.
The Stone is almost flat and pure black, bumpy on one side and slick and mirror-like on the other. Arthur is concerned about his elder brother’s spite, his father’s decline to give him an answer concerning becoming squire, his younger brother’s sickness, and his always aching tailbone
In the Stone he is given, Arthur sees the narrative unfold about a legendary young kin Arthur who lived centuries before. His life resembles that of the young Arthur in many ways, making him wonder what his future will look like.
The Stone tells a story with some unique powers that Arthur will soon learn about. He is required to protect the Stone since it’s a secret, or else the Stone will lose its powers. The Stone is said to reveal different things in life to whoever owns it, and now it’s revealing Arthur’s life journey.
Arthur worries so much about his future especially considering that it’s in the hands of his father. His brother often bullies him, making Shim wonder whether he will be needed to marry within his parents’ control.
Arthur also feels his tail bone is increasing in size, something that according to the manorial priest means that he might be a devil, which makes him very worried. Later he comes across an ordinary thirteen-year-old boy trying to find his way in the world while maintaining a good relationship with his friends and the adults in his life.
Throughout the story, the reader learns about life in the 12th century in England, where the rich were stealing from the poor, and the strong took advantage of the weak like orphans and widows because they have no voices.
Two separate worlds are held together to make a fantastic story. There are female characters in the story whose lives are mainly under men’s control, but they gain power and influence in more ways than the male characters. This adds more authenticity and depth to the book serving as a reminder that it’s not only in recent years that women’s rights were propagated
Even though the story of Arthur is and the Sword in the Stone is told in a brief and elementary fashion, the story of Arthur Caldicot is both gripping and fascinating. One will get to know about Arthur’s family where they might end up loving and hating some. For readers who are interested in magic and superstitions, the Seeing Stone is the book for you.
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