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Geraldine McCaughrean

Autor(a) de Peter Pan in Scarlet

194+ Works 10,571 Membros 279 Críticas 5 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Geraldine McCaughrean

Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006) 1,197 exemplares
The White Darkness (2005) 882 exemplares
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Retold (1984) — Autor — 670 exemplares
The Kite Rider (2001) 537 exemplares
The Odyssey (1993) 375 exemplares
Gilgamesh the Hero (2002) 367 exemplares
Where the World Ends (2017) 270 exemplares
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux (2010) 251 exemplares
Not the End of the World (2004) 242 exemplares
The Pirate's Son (1996) 221 exemplares
The Stones Are Hatching (1999) 215 exemplares
The Jesse Tree (2003) 209 exemplares
Stop the Train (2001) 208 exemplares
A Pack of Lies (1988) 186 exemplares
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths (1992) 176 exemplares
The Orchard Book of Roman Myths (1999) 167 exemplares
Stories from Shakespeare (1995) 117 exemplares
Cyrano (2006) 107 exemplares
How the Reindeer Got Their Antlers (1995) 104 exemplares
Saint George and the Dragon (1704) 99 exemplares
Father and Son: A Nativity Story (2006) 99 exemplares
Little Angel (1656) 85 exemplares
A Little Lower Than the Angels (1987) 83 exemplares
El Cid (1657) 80 exemplares
My Grandmother's Clock (2002) 65 exemplares
Odysseus (2003) 64 exemplares
Treasury of Fairy Tales (2003) 60 exemplares
Gold Dust (1993) 58 exemplares
Vainglory (1991) 57 exemplares
Hercules (Heroes) (1997) 55 exemplares
Perseus (Heroes) (2003) 54 exemplares
The Middle of Nowhere (1750) 53 exemplares
Tamburlaine's Elephants (1841) 47 exemplares
Grandma Chickenlegs (2000) 45 exemplares
Smile! (2004) 39 exemplares
Unicorns! Unicorns! (1997) 37 exemplares
Blue Moon Mountain (1994) 37 exemplares
Forever X (1997) 36 exemplares
The Story of Noah and the Ark (1989) 35 exemplares
The Story of Christmas (1989) 32 exemplares
One Bright Penny (2002) 30 exemplares
Theseus (Heroes) (2003) 30 exemplares
Fires' Astonishment (1990) 30 exemplares
King Arthur and the Round Table (1600) 30 exemplares
The Wooden Horse / Pandora's Box (1997) 30 exemplares
Starry Tales (1998) 25 exemplares
Beauty and the Beast (1999) 25 exemplares
Rebels and Royals (Britannia) (2001) 24 exemplares
The Supreme Lie (2021) 23 exemplares
Moby Dick, or, The white whale (2006) 21 exemplares
The Nutcracker (1999) 21 exemplares
Daedalus and Icarus / King Midas (1997) 20 exemplares
Twelve Dancing Princesses (2011) 19 exemplares
The Nativity Story (1998) 19 exemplares
Lovesong (1996) 18 exemplares
Mo (2005) 17 exemplares
Six Storey House (2002) 17 exemplares
My First Oxford Book of Stories (2000) 16 exemplares
Pull Out All the Stops! (2010) 16 exemplares
Too Big! (Corgi Pups) (1999) 16 exemplares
Show Stopper! (2003) 15 exemplares
The Adventures of Odysseus (1826) 15 exemplares
The Maypole (1989) 14 exemplares
Sky Ship and Other Stories (2004) 14 exemplares
Animal Tails (2016) 13 exemplares
Cat and Rat Fall Out (2001) 13 exemplares
Princess Stories (1997) 13 exemplares
The Ideal Wife (1997) 12 exemplares
The Great Chase (2000) 11 exemplares
Romulus and Remus / Stolen Wives (1600) 11 exemplares
The Positively Last Performance (2013) 11 exemplares
Brave Magic (1999) 11 exemplares
Fearless Flynn and Other Tales (2008) 10 exemplares
My First Earth Book (1989) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Dog Days (2003) 9 exemplares
Greek Heroes (1600) 8 exemplares
100 World Myths and Legends (2001) 7 exemplares
The Little Mermaid (2019) 7 exemplares
Cowboy Jess Saddles Up (1996) 7 exemplares
Go! Go! Chichico! (Little Gems) (2013) 6 exemplares
Dancing the Night Away (2003) 6 exemplares
Pittipat's Saucer of Moon (2012) 6 exemplares
Think Again! (2005) 6 exemplares
My First Space Book (1989) — Autor — 6 exemplares
The Snow Queen (2019) 5 exemplares
A sheepless night (2000) 5 exemplares
Blue Moo (Longman Book Project) (1994) 5 exemplares
Fig's Giant (2006) 5 exemplares
Doctor Quack (2003) 4 exemplares
Never Let Go (1998) 3 exemplares
Perseo e Medusa (1998) 3 exemplares
Greek and Roman Myths (2007) 3 exemplares
Good Dog (Longman Book Project) (1994) 2 exemplares
Wizziwig and the Sweet Machine (1996) 2 exemplares
LE AVVENTURE DI ULISSE (1998) 2 exemplares
Dedalo e Icaro e altre storie (2000) 2 exemplares
Jalopy (Green Apple) (2004) 2 exemplares
Cowboy Jess (1997) 2 exemplares
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

Associated Works

An Oxford Book of Christmas Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Centuries of Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
The Kingfisher Treasury of Princess Stories (2001) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1997) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Scary Tales (1992) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Greatest Magical Stories (2018) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Love Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Jones, Geraldine (birth)
Data de nascimento
1951-06-06
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
North London, England, UK
Locais de residência
Berkshire, England, UK
Ocupações
children's book author
Relações
Jones, Neil [1] (brother)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Royal Society of Literature ( [2010])
Carnegie Medal

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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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Bella_Baxter | 6 outras críticas | 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.… (mais)
 
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shelf-employed | 10 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | 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.
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ryner | 10 outras críticas | Jul 22, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
194
Also by
9
Membros
10,571
Popularidade
#2,251
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
279
ISBN
864
Línguas
16
Marcado como favorito
5

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