Geraldine McCaughrean was born in 1951 and brought up in North London. She studied at Christ Church College of Education, Canterbury and worked in a London publishing house for 10 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1988. She has written over 120 books, 50 short plays for schools, and a radio play. Her adult novels include Fires’ Astonishment (1990) and The Ideal Wife (1997), but she is best-known for her children’s books. She writes for children of all ages, from first readers, picture books, and younger children’s books, to children’s novels, which include A Little Lower than the Angels (1987), Gold Dust (1993) and Not the End of the World (2004), each of which have won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, making her the only writer to have won this award three times. Geraldine McCaughrean has also written several collections of stories, including bible stories and fairy tales. She specialises in the retelling of classic tales such as The Canterbury Tales (1984), The Odyssey (1993), Moby Dick (1996) and El Cid (1989) and of myths and legends from around the world. These books include The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (1992) and The Orchard Book of Roman Myths (1999). Geraldine McCaughrean lives in Berkshire. Her book, Not the End of the World, is currently being adapted for the stage. White Darkness (2005), was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Children's Book Award. In 2005, she was chosen to write the official sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Peter Pan in Scarlet was published in 2006.
Series
Books
Gilgamesh the Hero
2002
Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds
1997
Pittipat's Saucer of Moon
2012
Stop the Train!
2001
The Wish-Bringer
2012
Fires' Astonishment
1990
Where the World Ends
2017
Wenceslas
2005
The Middle of Nowhere
2013
A Pack of Lies
1989
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
2009
Lovesong
1996
My Grandmother's Clock
2002
The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen
2010
Greek Gods And Goddesses
1997
Father and Son
2006
How the Reindeer Got Their Antlers
2000
A Tale of Two Dragons
2022
The White Darkness
2005
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
2004
The Orchard Book of Stories from the Ballet
1994
Gold Dust
1986
Smile!
2004
Not the End of the World
2004
Beauty and the Beast
1999
Monacello
The Little Monk
2011
Unicorns! Unicorns!
1997
A Little Lower Than the Angels
1987
Show Stopper!
2003
The Snow Queen
2019
One Bright Penny
2002
Theseus and the Minotaur
1997
The Bronze Cauldron
Myths-Legends Of The World
1997
The Pirate's Son
1996
Saint George and the Dragon
1941
Moby Dick
or The White Whale
1997
The Canterbury Tales
1984
The Oxford Treasury of Fairy Tales
2003
Casting the Gods Adrift
1998
Forever X
1997
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[The Odyssey (Puffin Classics)] [By
Homer] [December, 1997]
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The Silver Treasure
Myths and Legends of the World
1996
The Positively Last Performance
2013
Peter Pan in Scarlet
2006
El Cid
1989
The Nutcracker
1999
Theseus
1997
Grandma Chickenlegs
1999
Perseus
1998
Romulus and Remus
2001
Tamburlaine's Elephants
2007
The Stones Are Hatching
2000
Starry Tales
1998
Greek Myths
1992
Burning the Books And The Guardian Geese
2000
The Kite Rider
1752
The Little Mermaid
2019
The Crystal Pool
Myths and Legends of the World
1998
Treasury Of Fairy Tales
2003
Hercules
1997
The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen
2004
Athena and the Olive Tree
2000
Odysseus
2003
The Supreme Lie
2021
Vainglory
1991
The Golden Hoard
1995
Britannia
1999
The Orchard Book of Roman Myths
1999
Blue Moon Mountain
2003
God's People
1997
King Arthur and the Round Table
1987
Golden Myths and Legends of the World
50 of the Best Stories Ever
1995
The Jesse Tree
2003
Little Angel
1995
Cyrano
2006
![By Geraldine McCaughrean - The Odyssey (1995-04-07) [Hardcover] book cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1696787769i/162097689.jpg)
By Geraldine McCaughrean - The Odyssey (1995-04-07) [Hardcover]
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A Pilgrim's Progress
2001
Stories From Shakespeare
1995
The Odyssey
1993
