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  Author Profiles - Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher.
Geraldine and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one twelve-year-old daughter, Ailsa.
In all, Geraldine has written over 100 books for both children and adults, as well as plays and poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.
www.jubileebooks.co.uk /jubilee/magazine/authors/geraldine_mccaughrean/profile.asp   (250 words)

  
 Geraldine McCaughrean Biography | Authors and Artist for Young Adults
Geraldine McCaughrean is a notable author of fiction and retellings for young adults.
McCaughrean knew that she did not want to be a teacher, so she began to study theater instead.
McCaughrean also rewrote a collection of Greek myths and her own version of The Odyssey by Homer; McCaughrean uses modern language and simplified plots to retell the ancient Greek stories.
www.bookrags.com /biography/geraldine-mccaughrean-aya   (1665 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Peter Pan takes flight to dark side in sequel to fantasy classic
Geraldine McCaughrean, a three-times winner of the Whitbread Children's Book award, beat competition from around the world to write the novel, which is set to be the publishing sensation of next year.
McCaughrean says she has rewritten the final pages of Peter Pan to help transport readers back to Neverland, to a setting 25 years after the boy who never grew up apparently vanquished his pirate foe.
McCaughrean's 60,000 word novel, which has been given a working title of Captain Pan, will be published simultaneously worldwide next summer and sales are expected to rival those for the Harry Potter series.
news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1818972005   (1137 words)

  
 Books | Author of the month: Geraldine McCaughrean
This is the outfit McCaughrean wore the first time she won the Whitbread, in 1987, for A Little Lower than the Angels.
For McCaughrean, writing is the only form of expression she ordinarily finds painless, so, suddenly being deprived of that ease sent her into a couple of years of depression.
The youngest of three, McCaughrean shared a double bed with her sister, who was six years older, while growing up.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5106794-99943,00.html   (755 words)

  
 It's Official: Geraldine McCaughrean is the Best Children's Writer Ever
"McCaughrean recreates the fetid intensity of that floating zoo with brutal clarity.
Geraldine's talent and the unfailing quality of her books always astonish me. Whether she is writing picture books, retelling classic tales or producing unforgettable novels like Not the End of the World, she manages to create something fresh, unique and exciting every time."
In 1988 Geraldine became a full-time writer and, since then, she has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children.
books.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_3277.php   (635 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is an award-winning author who has written more than 130 books and plays for children and adults.
Author Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 130 books and plays for children and adults.
In this interview, McCaughrean explains how she was selected to carry on Barrie's legacy and discusses the challenges of staying truthful to his style and sense of humor.
www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-mccaughrean-geraldine.asp   (1281 words)

  
 Geraldine McCaughrean - David Higham Associates
Born in 1951 in North London, Geraldine McCaughrean took an education degree but worked instead in magazine publishing for ten years before becoming a full-time writer.
Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 120 books and been published in 27 languages.
She writes for every age level, from first-readers and picture books to adult novels, and her awards include the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Prize (twice), the Guardian Fiction Award, Smarties Bronze (twice), UKRA and The Blue Peter Book of the Year as well as the 2001 Blue Peter category "The Best Book to Keep Forever".
www.davidhigham.co.uk /html/Clients/Gerladine_McCaughrean   (443 words)

  
 Peter Pan Awards - judges: Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She trained as a teacher, worked for ten years in publishing, and in 1988 became a full-time writer.
Since then, Geraldine has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children and has won the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (three times), Smarties Bronze (four times), UK Readers' Association Award, and wrote the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2000.
Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and their daughter, Ailsa.
www.gosh.org /peterpanawards/judges_geraldine_mccaughrean.htm   (152 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Stones Are Hatching: Books: Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
McCaughrean does an excellent job with his book; with the slightly clueless hero, magical and sharp-witted heroine, and a pair of odd but poignant sidekicks, it reminds me of Lloyd Alexander's books.
McCaughrean for having him do that, simply because his remorseful response after the fact is admirable and very true.
Geraldine McCaughrean is a renowned scholar on the subject of folklore and she has populated the pages of this book with myriad concepts and creatures from out of the dark and wild past.
www.amazon.ca /Stones-Are-Hatching-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/0064472183   (2149 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Kite Rider: English Books: Geraldine McCaughrean,Cynthia Bishop,Full Cast Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
All this McCaughrean accomplishes in less than 10 pages, establishing a breakneck pace, which she maintains with seeming ease.
The story takes Haoyou from his determined efforts to prevent the evil first mate from marrying his beautiful mother to his joining a traveling circus as a kite rider, mastering his father's tragedy as he himself flies skyward into what the circus-goers take to be the spirit world.
McCaughrean fully immerses her memorable characters in the culture and lore of the ancient Chinese and Mongols, which make this not only a solid adventure story but also a window to a fascinating time and place rarely used as a background in children's fiction.
www.amazon.de /Kite-Rider-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/1932076387   (622 words)

  
 Author Profile: Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is the winner of England's most prestigious children's book award, the Carnegie Medal, for a pack of lies.
She is also the author of many other prize-winning books for young readers, including THE PIRATE'S SON, GOLD DUST, and FOREVER X, which was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal.
McCaughrean and her family live in Berkshire, England.
www.teenreads.com /authors/au-mccaughrean-geraldine.asp   (124 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine Mccaughrean
Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet.
McCaughrean's complex tale, set in 1926, finds Wendy, the 'Old Boys' and John (Michael having perished in the Great War) dreaming repeatedly of Neverland, whose trappings (an eye patch, a live crocodile, etc.) keep turning up nearby.
Geraldine Mccaughrean has written more than 130 books and plays for adults and children.
www.powells.com /biblio/62-1416918086-0   (395 words)

  
 Booktrusted.com - information and advice about children's books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Geraldine McCaughrean is the youngest of 3 children.
Geraldine McCaughrean uses humour to great effect in her writing, to define characters and their relationships to each other, to explore their understandings and misunderstandings and to control the pace of the narrative.
Geraldine McCaughrean claims that she does not know at the planning stage what the themes of a book will be, that they transpire as she writes.
www.booktrusted.co.uk /education/mccaughrean/mccaughrean_notes.html   (3511 words)

  
 C4 - BookBox - Authors - Biography of Geraldine McCaughrean - Non Flash
Geraldine McCaughrean was so shy at infant school that she didn't even dare to ask the teacher's name.
Geraldine didn't like teaching very much and wasn't very good at being a secretary or sub-editor because she was so vague.
Geraldine has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.
www.channel4.com /learning/microsites/B/bookbox/authors/mccaughrean/index1.htm   (143 words)

  
 Oxford | Education | Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Since then, Geraldine has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children and has won the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (three times in three decades), Smarties Bronze (four times), UK Readers' Association Award, and wrote the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2000.
Geraldine has been chosen by the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital to write the official sequel to Peter Pan.
Geraldine is married and has one daughter, called Ailsa.
www.oup.com /oxed/children/authors/mccaughrean   (290 words)

  
 McCaughrean,Geraldine Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In 15 stories, Geraldine McCaughrean vividly recreates the world of the powerful Greek gods and goddesses who possessed human attributes and failings.
McCaughrean's dramatic retelling of the legend of Saint George, based on meticulous research, emphasizes the legend's mystery and excitement.
In this second of McCaughrean's four-book Heroes series, readers follow Perseus as he lives the fate the oracles have declared, an impossible quest to kill the hideous, snake-haired Medusa to save his mother from marriage to an evil king.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/McCaughrean,Geraldine   (1041 words)

  
 TomFolio.com: by Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
McCaughrean, Geraldine, Illustrated by Barrett, Angela The Orchard Book of STORIES FROM THE BALLET Publisher: London, United Kingdom: Orchard Books, 1994.
McCaughrean, Geraldine, Illustrated by Willey, Bee THE GOLDEN HOARD : Myths and Legends of the World Publisher: New York, NY: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1995.
McCaughrean, Geraldine, Illustrator: Ward, Helen The Story of Noah and the Ark Publisher: Price Stern Sloan Limited Northampton, England 1989.
www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Geraldine_McCaughrean   (585 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - PETER PAN IN SCARLET by Geraldine McCaughrean
In the eyes of many diehard fans of the original, the book's success would ultimately depend on whether McCaughrean stayed true to Barrie's initial vision when adding her own style and plot elements to the mix.
Instead, McCaughrean's version is indeed just as fierce and dodgy as Barrie's original, and promises a nail-biting read from start to finish.
McCaughrean clearly has done her homework, as much of the plot threads that are left dangling at the end of the original are assiduously woven into the fabric of the story in this version.
www.kidsreads.com /reviews/1416918086.asp   (693 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Odyssey: Livres en anglais: Geraldine McCaughrean,Homer Odyssey,Victor G. Ambrus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In this retelling, Geraldine McCaughrean's lively and original style is complemented by Victor Ambrus's brilliant recreations of the ancient world and its monsters and gods.
"McCaughrean's fine retelling of Odysseus' wanderings is a heroic tale in the truest sense of the world.
It captures all the drama and bloodcurdling action of the original work while making the story accessible to young people in language that is still vigorous and expressive.
www.amazon.fr /Odyssey-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/0192741535   (335 words)

  
 Geraldine McCaughrean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She has also written six historical novels for adults.
¹"Geraldine McCaughrean" in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, entry updated 4/15/2004.Go to geraldine.co.uk She also has a dog called Daisy
This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geraldine_McCaughrean   (228 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Not the End of the World: Books: Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There is real horror in the violence of the story of the flood, and McCaughrean is unflinching in her telling.
Using different voices, McCaughrean explores the gritty truth behind the story of the Ark. There have been numerous exquisite children's storybooks about this wonderful tale (Jane Ray's illustrated version and Judith Kerr's wonderful Mrs Monkey and the Ark spring to mind) but this is for older readers.
McCaughrean takes a long hard and not always positive look at life on the ark for Noah's family.
www.amazon.co.uk /Not-End-World-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/0192719726   (700 words)

  
 The Watts Publishing Group. Orchard Books, Geraldine McCaughrean Information page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Whitbread Award winner, Geraldine McCaughrean, is an accomplished children's author who has retold classic stories to create some of Orchard's most beautiful books, as well as enjoying success with her own stories and adult novels.
Geraldine's latest book, Jalopy, is a shorter novel charting the adventures of a smart red car and its many owners.
Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband and daughter.
www.wattspub.co.uk /gmccaob.htm   (205 words)

  
 Geraldine McCaughrean - auteur jeunesse
Geraldine McCaughrean a grandi au Nord de Londres.
Auteur : Geraldine McCaughrean - Illustrateur : Stephen Lambert
Auteur : Geraldine McCaughrean - Illustrateur : Sophy Williams
www.ricochet-jeunes.org /auteur.asp?id=12904   (253 words)

  
 Scholar's Blog: The White Darkness - Geraldine McCaughrean
You may remember that in December I shared Brandon Robshaw's review of Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness, which is the story of Symone Wates, a 14-year-old girl, who is regarded as a dork at school, and whose best friend is the long-dead Captain Oates.
She goes on a trip to Paris with her "Uncle" Victor (Victor is in fact her father's business partner) and then he takes her off on a madcap expedition to the South Pole, and it seems likely she'll share the fate of Oates and his comrades.
This is very much a thriller and throughout McCaughrean gives clues to events in Sym's past that she recalls, clues that prove that Sym's recollections are not always accurate.
scholar-blog.blogspot.com /2006/01/white-darkness-geraldine-mccaughrean.html   (835 words)

  
 Justine Larbalestier - Geraldine McCaughrean
I've just heard that Geraldine McCaughrean has won the contest to write the sequel to J. Barrie's Peter Pan.
This is astonishingly good news because Geraldine McCaughrean is a far better writer than J. Barrie ever was.
Here's hoping that winning the contest and writing the wonderful book that she will, of course, write, is going to bring her the fame and riches she deserves.
www.justinelarbalestier.com /Musings/Musings2005/geraldine.htm   (199 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Starry Tales: Livres en anglais: Geraldine McCaughrean,Sophy Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
McCaughrean tells 15 such tales from different countries and cultures, including a Pawnee legend about why stars are so far away and a West African explanation of rainbows.
Here you can read about how night was created, about the Giant who stole the sun, and about the "saucepan" in the sky...
One of today's most talented storytellers, Geraldine McCaughrean brings these myths to fresh life.
www.amazon.fr /Starry-Tales-Geraldine-McCaughrean/dp/0689830157   (407 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Peter Pan in Scarlet, by Geraldine McCaughrean, Hardcover
McCaughrean won a competition to pen this sequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (see Children's Bookshelf, Sept. 14).
In the year's most hyped title for young readers, the much-honored McCaughrean delivers an "authorized" sequel that stays true to the original's style and spirit but speaks to modern sensibilities as well.
McCaughrean also tucks in a band of humorously disaffected adolescents dubbed "Roarers," deft literary allusions from Barrie and other writers, reunions that range from tearful to shocking and (inevitably) a sequel-ready conclusion.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=1416918086&z=y&cds2Pid=9481   (570 words)

  
 books by Geraldine McCaughrean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Geraldine McCaughrean has created a fantastic sequal for all of us who believe in NeverLand!
Author Geraldine McCaughrean and illustrator Emma Chichester Clark previously worked together on "Greek Myths," which focuses on the heroes of classical mythology the way "Greek Gods and Goddesses" tells myths about the deities of Olympus.
Yes the complex language is indeed crippled to ease reading of the story, but by doing that the story comes alive filled with wit and...
www.this-is-great.com /books/author-Geraldine+McCaughrean   (739 words)

  
 Welcome to the official website of Geraldine Mccaughrean.
Welcome to the official website of Geraldine Mccaughrean.
This is the website of Geraldine McCaughrean - the prize winning author who has been writing for children for over twenty years.
Track down some Greek myths for a school project, or just browse through my bookshelves for a plot you like the sound of.
www.geraldine-mccaughrean.co.uk /main.html   (79 words)

  
 Geraldine McCaughrean, The Stones are Hatching   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Geraldine McCaughrean brings her vast knowledge of folklore and mythology to the fore in her new novel The Stones are Hatching.
McCaughrean's handling of the folkloric elements is deft and chilling, edged with dark and mystery.
Phee and Alexia come into their own, and Phee finds strength in the magic in his blood.
www.rambles.net /mccaughrean_hatching.html   (614 words)

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