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Geraldine McCaughrean

Författare till Peter Pan in Scarlet

194+ verk 10,571 medlemmar 279 recensioner 5 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Geraldine McCaughrean was born in Enfield, England on June 6, 1951. She was educated at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She has written more than 160 books and plays for children and adults. Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The visa mer Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Geraldine McCaughrean

Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006) 1,197 exemplar
The White Darkness (2005) 882 exemplar
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Retold (1984) — Författare — 670 exemplar
The Kite Rider (2001) 537 exemplar
The Odyssey (1993) 375 exemplar
Gilgamesh the Hero (2002) 367 exemplar
Where the World Ends (2017) 270 exemplar
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux (2010) 251 exemplar
Not the End of the World (2004) 242 exemplar
The Pirate's Son (1996) 221 exemplar
The Stones Are Hatching (1999) 215 exemplar
Löftesträdet (2003) 209 exemplar
Stop the Train (2001) 208 exemplar
A Pack of Lies (1988) 186 exemplar
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (1992) 176 exemplar
The Orchard Book of Roman Myths (1999) 167 exemplar
Stories from Shakespeare (1995) 117 exemplar
Cyrano (2006) 107 exemplar
Saint George and the Dragon (1704) 99 exemplar
Little Angel (1656) 85 exemplar
A Little Lower Than the Angels (1987) 83 exemplar
El Cid (1657) 80 exemplar
My Grandmother's Clock (2002) 65 exemplar
Odysseus (2003) 64 exemplar
Treasury of Fairy Tales (2003) 60 exemplar
Gold Dust (1993) 58 exemplar
Vainglory (1991) 57 exemplar
Hercules (Heroes) (1997) 55 exemplar
Perseus (Heroes) (2003) 54 exemplar
The Middle of Nowhere (1750) 53 exemplar
Tamburlaine's Elephants (1841) 47 exemplar
Grandma Chickenlegs (2000) 45 exemplar
Smile! (2004) 39 exemplar
Unicorns! Unicorns! (1997) 37 exemplar
Blue Moon Mountain (1994) 37 exemplar
Forever X (1997) 36 exemplar
The Story of Noah and the Ark (1989) 35 exemplar
The Story of Christmas (1989) 32 exemplar
One Bright Penny (2002) 30 exemplar
Theseus (Heroes) (2003) 30 exemplar
Fires' Astonishment (1990) 30 exemplar
Starry Tales (1998) 25 exemplar
Beauty and the Beast (1999) 25 exemplar
Rebels and Royals (Britannia) (2001) 24 exemplar
The Supreme Lie (2021) 23 exemplar
Moby Dick, or, The white whale (2006) 21 exemplar
The Nutcracker (1999) 21 exemplar
Twelve Dancing Princesses (2011) 19 exemplar
The Nativity Story (1998) 19 exemplar
Lovesong (1996) 18 exemplar
Mo (2005) 17 exemplar
Six Storey House (2002) 17 exemplar
Pull Out All the Stops! (2010) 16 exemplar
Too Big! (Corgi Pups) (1999) 16 exemplar
Show Stopper! (2003) 15 exemplar
The Adventures of Odysseus (1826) 15 exemplar
The Maypole (1989) 14 exemplar
Sky Ship and Other Stories (2004) 14 exemplar
Animal Tails (2016) 13 exemplar
Cat and Rat Fall Out (2001) 13 exemplar
Princess Stories (1997) 13 exemplar
The Ideal Wife (1997) 12 exemplar
The Great Chase (2000) 11 exemplar
Brave Magic (1999) 11 exemplar
Fearless Flynn and Other Tales (2008) 10 exemplar
My First Earth Book (1989) — Författare — 9 exemplar
Dog Days (2003) 9 exemplar
Greek Heroes (1600) 8 exemplar
100 World Myths and Legends (2001) 7 exemplar
The Little Mermaid (2019) 7 exemplar
Cowboy Jess Saddles Up (1996) 7 exemplar
Dancing the Night Away (2003) 6 exemplar
Pittipat's Saucer of Moon (2012) 6 exemplar
Think Again! (2005) 6 exemplar
My First Space Book (1989) — Författare — 6 exemplar
The Snow Queen (2019) 5 exemplar
A sheepless night (2000) 5 exemplar
Fig's Giant (2006) 5 exemplar
Doctor Quack (2003) 4 exemplar
Never Let Go (1998) 3 exemplar
Perseo e Medusa (1998) 3 exemplar
Greek and Roman Myths (2007) 3 exemplar
LE AVVENTURE DI ULISSE (1998) 2 exemplar
Jalopy (Green Apple) (2004) 2 exemplar
Cowboy Jess (1997) 2 exemplar
Á hjara veraldar 1 exemplar
O lago dos cisnes 1 exemplar
Tales of Robin Hood (PGRW) (2000) 1 exemplar
Noah and Nelly (Pet Pals) (1999) 1 exemplar
Iarlles (2005) 1 exemplar
Contes d'Amor i Amistat (2002) 1 exemplar
Alla fine del mondo (2019) 1 exemplar
Non sarà la fine del mondo (2009) 1 exemplar
A Tale of Two Dragons (2021) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

An Oxford Book of Christmas Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Centuries of Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
The Kingfisher Treasury of Princess Stories (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Scary Tales (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Greatest Magical Stories (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Love Stories (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Maitokulho ja kolme muuta hyvänyöntarinaa — Författare — 1 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Andra namn
Jones, Geraldine (birth)
Födelsedag
1951-06-06
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Födelseort
North London, England, UK
Bostadsorter
Berkshire, England, UK
Yrken
children's book author
Relationer
Jones, Neil [1] (brother)
Priser och utmärkelser
Royal Society of Literature ( [2010])
Carnegie Medal
Kort biografi
Geraldine McCaughrean has written more than 125 books, been published in twenty-five countries, and won a dozen major awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal.   She lives in Berkshire, England with her husband John, daughter Ailsa, and Daisy the dog.   [from Casting the Gods Adrift (2002)]

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Recensioner

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Bella_Baxter | 6 andra recensioner | Mar 14, 2024 |
This tale of a small group of boys and men stranded on a remote island off Scotland's coast in the 1700s, is much more than an adventure story. The party of fowlers has been left on the island, as they have been every year, to harvest birds and feathers for use on the larger island where their small community resides, living meager lives of subsistence. When the boat to ferry them home fails to arrive, the superstitious party begins to think that the world may have ended in a catastrophic or celestial event, and they have somehow been forgotten. Geraldine McCaughrean brings life to the birds (the island's only inhabitants) and the party's grueling work of survival, and also to the mental struggles each person faces according to his own personality and beliefs. Some similarities can be drawn to both the cruelty and devolution of [Lord of the Flies] and the more uplifting [Frederick] by Leo Lionni. Where The World Ends offers a bit of both. The hunting group are are simple, quiet, and practical folk—no strangers to harsh and cooperative work. McCaughrean's descriptive passages imbue their thoughts and surroundings with an emotional liveliness that fully immerses the reader. She is a master storyteller. Based on a true story.… (mer)
 
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shelf-employed | 10 andra recensioner | Mar 9, 2024 |
Simply LOVED it. Taking after Charles and Mary Lamb, McCaughrean tells beautifully illustrated versions of the stories of ten classic ballets. This was given to my sister (a dancer) when she was about 9; strangely I, who cannot dance to save my life, was the one rapt by it. To this day, I have a particularly strong love of the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and "Gisele" because of this book. Love it.
 
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therebelprince | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 24, 2023 |
It is summer on the remote island of St. Kilda, and a group of men and boys are preparing for the annual hunting journey to Warrior Stac, a small, barren, rocky island in the outer Hebrides. A small boat ferries them to the outcropping and drops them off, and the small band immediately sets to work preparing a shelter for the next few weeks and commencing hunting of the seafowl who visit the island to nest this time of year. All goes swimmingly, their haul bountiful, until it becomes apparent that the return boat isn't coming for them.

I quite enjoyed this novel (I admit to being somewhat partial to survival/adventure tales), as well as McCaughrean's writing. For a while I thought we were heading down a road to full-blown Lord of the Flies, but thankfully, though it was at times disturbing, the breakdown of society didn't sink quite to that level, and the story had sufficient nuance and imagination to make it distinct. That it was based on true events was icing on the cake.
… (mer)
 
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ryner | 10 andra recensioner | Jul 22, 2023 |

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Statistik

Verk
194
Även av
9
Medlemmar
10,571
Popularitet
#2,251
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
279
ISBN
864
Språk
16
Favoritmärkt
5

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