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McCaughrean Geraldine
(b. 1951)
«Piter Pan in Scarlett»

Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist. The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and 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.

McCaughrean has written more than 150 books, and won numerous prizes, including:

The Carnegie Medal in 1988 and the Guardian Prize in 1989 for A Pack of Lies

The Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1987 for A Little Lower Than the Angels

The Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1994 for Gold Dust

The Whitbread Children's Book Award in 2004 for Not the End of the World

The Michael L. Printz Award in 2008 for The White Darkness

McCaughrean has also won awards for her writing in Germany and America, and has been translated into 42 languages worldwide. Her work includes many retellings for children: The Odyssey, El Cid, The Canterbury Tales, Pilgrims Progress, Moby Dick, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Gilgamesh. In 2005, she was selected by Great Ormond Street Hospital to write an official sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, titled Peter Pan in Scarlet.

McCaughrean was elected an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University, in 2006. She was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2010 She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.

She has written six historical novels for adults and many fiction books, including The Kite Rider, The Stones Are Hatching, and Plundering Paradise.

Alderney, 2010, Children flying above London

Alderney, 2010, Captain Hook falling into Crocodile's Jaws

Alderney, 2010, Peter Pan visits Captain Hook's Ship

Alderney, 2010, Peter waving a Rainbow

Alderney, 2010, Children at top of Neverpeak

Alderney, 2010, Bonfire

Alderney, 2010, Peter Pan