
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