Books by Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today’s most successful and highly regarded children’s authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children’s Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award (four times) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. In 2005 she was chosen from over 100 other authors to write the official sequel to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.
The White Darkness
by Geraldine McCaughrean
🏆 Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
“I read up on Antarctica so much that I knew more than I’ve ever known in preparation for writing any book. It really got to me – the way it does to most people – but I still had no idea if my book would work. It was so ambitious and peculiar and mined from so deep inside me. After it won the Printz Award in America, I started to get messages from people in Idaho and Nebraska who said, ‘I didn’t realise anybody else thought like me. This is just how I feel.’ It was amazing to think that teenage life really hasn’t changed very much over the years…The White Darkness is most appreciated, in my experience, by 14 year old girls who are still at a stage when they have a lively interior world “ Read more...
Geraldine McCaughrean, Children's Author
“He adopted two girls with a view to keeping them and marrying whichever one turned out best – marrying off the one that didn’t turn out so well. Which is a really creepy idea.” Read more...
Geraldine McCaughrean, Children's Author
“There is, in fact, a town called Enid in Oklahoma which dates back to the land runs when everybody could, if they had a vehicle, run into Oklahoma and grab a piece of land.” Read more...
Geraldine McCaughrean, Children's Author
“But finding this tiny, couple of sentences about boys marooned on a sea stack…started me thinking. Whatever did they suppose had happened?” Read more...
Geraldine McCaughrean, Children's Author
“For those days, Kublai Khan was an enlightened invader who, when he invaded, didn’t just kill everybody but would take the cleverest ones and incorporate them into his government” Read more...
Geraldine McCaughrean, Children's Author
Interviews with Geraldine McCaughrean
Books Based on True Stories, recommended by Geraldine McCaughrean
Not all kids want to read about magic and fairytales and many have an unquenchable thirst for reading about reality. Geraldine McCaughrean talks us through five of her own books and recommends five by other writers that were inspired by true stories.
Interviews where books by Geraldine McCaughrean were recommended
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Young Adults, recommended by Philip Reeve
Award-winning author Philip Reeve talks us through the science fiction and fantasy books that shaped him and his work in profound ways; among indubitable classics are vibrant lesser-known works awaiting discovery.
Books Based on True Stories, recommended by Geraldine McCaughrean
Not all kids want to read about magic and fairytales and many have an unquenchable thirst for reading about reality. Geraldine McCaughrean talks us through five of her own books and recommends five by other writers that were inspired by true stories.
