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www.geraldine-mccaughrean.co.uk
Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. 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. In 2002, The Kite Rider and Stop the Train were both shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, with the latter being Highly Commended. Her most recent novel, The White Darkness, was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.
Geraldine is the author of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Peter Pan in Scarlet was one of the most talked about and successful children’s titles in 2006.
"My excursion to Neverland went by in a flash. The months of writing just slipped by. I didn't notice I was working in Barrie's awesome shadow (except when we were sharing the occasional in-joke) - clean forgot to worry whether the finished book will be good enough to please a waiting world. I was enjoying myself far too much. But when a book is a joy to write, some of that joy rubs off - like fairy dust - onto the manuscript. And if people enjoy reading Peter Pan in Scarlet half as much as I enjoyed writing it, even J.M. Barrie's ghost may give a deprocating little smile, and the boy himself a big, boastful 'Cockadoodledoo'. Me, I'm just grateful to have spent time in their company."
Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and their daughter, Ailsa
Recommended Reads
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Oxford University Press
978-0192726209
The White Darkness
Oxford University Press
978-0192726186
Kite Rider
Oxford University Press
978-0192751577
Publisher
Oxford University Press