Geraldine Mccaughrean - Children's Author

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London. 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 160 books and plays for both adults and children, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which was one of the most talked about and successful children’s titles of 2006.

Geraldine McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children’s Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award (four times), the Blue Peter Book of the Year award and the Blue Peter Special Book to Keep Forever award.  In the States, accolades have included the Printz Award, America’s most prestigious teen-book prize.

Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband and their daughter.

Anne Fine on Geraldine McCaughrean:

'I reckon Geraldine McCaughrean knocks the socks off every other children's writer today. Everything she does is different and everything works – look at her list of prizes. She must write in tremendous bursts. Some years, she's so prolific the rest of us start joking that the fairies come in at night to do her work for her. Then she'll go quiet, so unlike all those writers who are persuaded by their publishers to come up with something every year, no matter how tired or drab. If Geraldine has nothing fresh to write, she doesn't write it.' (The Guardian)

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Go! Go! Chichico!
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Interest Age 5-7+ Reading Age 6+ A brilliant footballing story from award winning Geraldine McCaughrean. Chichico is scouted for a try out at Santos Brazil. The only problem is that he doesn’t have any boots! His friends Davi and Anna find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/2013
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The Positively Last Performance
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Award winning Geraldine McCaughrean spins a brilliantly fanciful yarn in the magical setting of a disused theatre. Every night amazing things happen in the theatre but no one except the resident ghosts can see them.  But then Gracie comes along;...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2013
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The Nutcracker
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A retelling of the story of Marie, who is given a special nutcracker doll for Christmas. The nutcracker comes alive, turns into a handsome prince, and the marvellous adventures begin.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2012
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The Wish-Bringer
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Award-winning Geraldine McCaughrean tells more heart-warming stories as she brings to life the charming but impish little character Montecello, an orphan who haunts the streets of his birthplace Naples, sometimes bringing joy and sometimes playing tricks, according to his mood...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2012
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Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the boredom...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2011
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Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine Mccaughrean
With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer. Cissy escapes from the boredom of life in her home town and especially the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2010
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The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011 A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011 Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny. Pepper is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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The Death-defying Pepper Roux
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Prize-winning Geraldine McCaughrean has turned her deft hand to a brilliantly witty and fast moving story about a boy who wants to defy his destiny. Pepper is an unusual name and Pepper Roux is an unusual child especially since, according...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Peter Pan In Scarlet (Illustrated Edition)
Geraldine Mccaughrean
This is a lush, illustrated gift edition of Geraldine McCaughrean’s official sequel to Peter Pan that was such a huge bestseller when it first came out in both hardback and paperback.  The text in this special edition has been specially...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more.  Here she draws...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/09/2008
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Cyrano
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A hilarious retelling of Edmond Rostand’s classic romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano is a man of action, a soldier, a man of letters, and a hopeless romantic, and his one defect is his enormous nose. Poor Cyrano is hopelessly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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Peter Pan In Scarlet
Geraldine Mccaughrean
At last a sequel to one of the most endearing classics of all time.  The author chosen to undertake this literary feat is not a household name but she is, a supremely talented storyteller and a winner of virtually every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Plundering Paradise
Geraldine Mccaughrean
When you read this you’ll realise why the author put herself forward to write the sequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan for this is a swashbuckling pirate adventure.  Not surprisingly it won a major award for it will have...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Gold Dust
Geraldine Mccaughrean
As with so many of Geraldine’s novels, she has in Gold Dust created an entirely original yet believable world, this time in Brazil.  Utterly engrossing, fast-paced, full of humour and heartbreak your imagination will run riot throughout the novel and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Stop The Train
Geraldine Mccaughrean
This is a tense, fast-moving adventure story set just over a hundred years ago in the American mid-west.  When the trains cease to stop at a settlement the livelihood of the families there are at stake and the community get...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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The Kite Rider
Geraldine Mccaughrean
This is an absolutely marvellous soaring adventure that gives you a glimpse, and a memorable one at that, of another world.  The story is completely original, like nothing you will have read before and utterly compulsive. The words are rich...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Tamburlaine's Elephants
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a genius in her ability to draw the reader in to a part of history that might not immediately spring to mind as being of interest and yet she makes you hungry for more.  Here, she draws...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 28/09/2007
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Fig's Giant
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Gulliver’s Travels remains one of the all-time children’s classics and in years to come Fig’s Giant, a stunning picture book for toddlers and young children will deservedly become a classic too.  The author’s take on Lilliput and the Lilliputians is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2006
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Peter Pan In Scarlet
Geraldine Mccaughrean
At last a sequel to one of the most endearing classics of all time.  The author chosen to undertake this literary feat is not a household name but she is, a supremely talented storyteller and a winner of virtually every...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2006
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The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. What the judges said: McCaughrean’s control of language and style ensures that this novel, with its original and ambitious plot, produces a fast-moving adventure story. It’s an outstanding survival fantasy that explores the pain of adolescence. The...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A beautiful book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, this is an accessible prose re-telling of the story of the Faerie Queen, Spenser’s romantic poem first written for Queen Elizabeth 1. Full of adventure with knights and dragons, princesses...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Mo
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Hilarious! Mo is a most unusual mobile phone – and definitely not one it is easy to own. Shane has always wanted a mobile phone but Mo is not the phone he wants. Mo answers back, sings opera at inconvenient...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 19/01/2006
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One Thousand And One Arabian Nights
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A completely original version of the Arabian Nights Stories by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. In order to delay her inevitable execution, Queen Shaharazad tells her murdering husband, King Shahryar, an exciting story every night. She tells her wonderful stories until...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 15/07/1999
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The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
Geraldine Mccaughrean
Jenny Downham, January 2011 Guest Editor, chose this book: "I was given a book of Greek myths by my brother for my 11th birthday, I reread it so many times it fell apart in my hands and all these years later,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/08/1992
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Monacello The Little Monk
Geraldine Mccaughrean
“Devil!” “Goblin” “Gremlin!” “Demon!” Strange little creature. Strange pale eyes, so full of fear. Strange little monk, his habit black as nightmares, his surplice grubby as spilt milk. Strange little boy shaped like a question mark, who are you? Intrigue, superstition...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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