Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans / Kevin Crossley-Holland ; illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781536217711
- ISBN: 1536217719
- Physical Description: viii, 87 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition: First US edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | Companion to: Norse myths : tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The troll and the trickster -- Skarp's ghost -- Blue of blue -- Your life or my life -- The gift of poetry. |
Summary, etc.: | "Step back into a sweeping landscape of green glades and glaciers where dwarves, frost giants, and ghosts roam and where gods and goddesses work their magic for Middle Earth, sometimes crossing the great rainbow bridge to come to the aid of humans"--Amazon. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Mythology, Norse > Juvenile literature. Gods, Norse > Juvenile literature. Mythology, Norse. |
Genre: | Myths. Adaptations. |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | J 398.2 CRO (Text) | 34005150495454 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a well-known poet, a prize-winning children's author, and a translator. Crossley-Holland has translated Beowulf and The Exeter Book of Riddles from the Anglo-Saxon. He has collaborated with composers Nicola Lefanu (The Green Children and The Wildman), Rupert Bawden (The Sailor's Tale), Sir Arthur Bliss, William Mathias, and Stephen Paulus. Crossley-Holland's book The Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The trilogy has won critical acclaim and been translated into twenty-five languages. His recent and forthcoming books are The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, Bracelet of Bones and his new and selected poems The Mountains of Norfolk. Crossley-Holland often lectures abroad on behalf of the British Council and offers poetry and prose workshops and talks on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, King Arthur, heroines and heroes, and myth, legend and folk-tale. Kevin Crossley-Holland is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives on the north Norfolk coast in East Anglia with his wife and children. (Bowker Author Biography)