Name Geraldine McCaughrean | Role Novelist | |
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Education Canterbury Christ Church University Awards Carnegie Medal, Michael L. Printz Award, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Nominations Nestle Smarties Book Prize, Angus Book Award Books Peter Pan in Scarlet, The White Darkness, The Kite Rider, The Middle of Nowhere, The DeathâDefying Pepper R Similar People Elizabeth Laird, Jenny Nimmo, Anne Fine, Tony Ross, William Shakespeare | ||
The nutcracker a magic theater book by geraldine mccaughrean illustrated by kristina swarner
Geraldine McCaughrean (pronounced "Muh-cork-run") (born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 160 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to Peter Pan, and her work has been translated into 45 languages worldwide.
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- The nutcracker a magic theater book by geraldine mccaughrean illustrated by kristina swarner
- Divine poetry competition 2013 introduction from geraldine mccaughrean
- Career
- Awards
- References
Divine poetry competition 2013 introduction from geraldine mccaughrean
Career
McCaughrean was born in London and grew up in North London. She was the youngest of three children. She studied teaching but found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world. Her motto is: do not write about what you know, write about what you want to know.
Her work includes many retellings of classic stories for children: The Odyssey, El Cid, The Canterbury Tales, The Pilgrim's Progress, Moby Dick, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Gilgamesh.
J. M. Barrie gave all rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929, and in 2004, to coincide with Peter Pan's centenary, the hospital launched a competition to find the author of a sequel. McCaughrean won the competition, after submitting a synopsis and a sample chapter. Peter Pan in Scarlet was released internationally on 5 October 2006, published in the UK by Oxford University Press and in the US by Simon & Schuster.
McCaughrean has written many other children's fiction books including The Kite Rider, The Stones Are Hatching, and Plundering Paradise. She has also written six historical novels for adults including: The Maypole (1990), Fire's Astonishment (1991), Lovesong (1996) and The Ideal Wife (1997).
As of 2013, she has launched an online novel based on the Hylas and Hercules myth, A Thousand Kinds of Ugly.
Awards
For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer McCaughrean was the British nominee in 2004 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University in 2006 and a Fellow of the English Association in 2010. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2010.
McCaughrean has won several annual book awards. For A Pack of Lies (Oxford, 1988), a collection of historical stories in a frame narrative, she won the two most prestigious British children's book awards. The Carnegie Medal conferred by the Library Association recognised the year's best children's book by a British subject. The Guardian Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of British children's writers and limited to fiction books.
Stop the Train (Oxford, 2001) was "Highly Commended" for the Carnegie Medal. From 1988 to 2014, McCaughrean has seven times made the Carnegie shortlist that typically comprises eight books.