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Douglas Wood is a well-known musician, composer and writer of works with a spiritual theme, and an experienced wilderness guide. He also wrote the award-winning classic Old Turtle, which has sold over three quarters of a million copies around the world. P.J. Lynch won the 1987 Mother Goose Award for his first illustrated book, Alan Garner's A Bag of Moonshine. He has since illustrated several more books for children, including Melisande and Favourite Fairy Tales. He has twice been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal - in 1996 for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey and in 1998 for When Jessie Came Across the Sea. He has also been shortlisted Twice for the same award - for East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon and Catkin by Antonia Barber.