About Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children’s author, and poet. His best known work may now be the Arthur trilogy, for which he won the Guardian Prize. His 1985 novella Storm won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year’s outstanding children’s book by a British subject. For the seventieth anniversary of the Medal in 2007 it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favorite.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.