Geraldine McCaughrean

About Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children’s partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller. Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer. Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of the most exciting children’s writer’s today.

Geraldine and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one twelve-year-old daughter, Ailsa. In all, Geraldine has written over 100 books for both children and adults, as well as plays and poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.

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Awards

Geraldine has won the Carnegie Medal, Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year (three times), Smarties Bronze (four times), UK Readers’ Association Award, and wrote the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2000. In 2002, The Kite Rider and Stop the Train were both shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, with the latter being Highly Commended. Her most recent novel, The White Darkness, was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Children’s Book Award and for the 2006 Carnegie medal.