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24 November -   I'll be one of the 40 authors crowding into Hatchards in Piccadilly, London on the evening of 24th November, to sign books.
 
 
Just back from a visit to beautiful Vienna and a lovely day talking stories to Grades 6-8 of the Vienna International School: a huge and buzzing place teeming with 1400 terrific pupils from here, there and everywhere.
 
 
Both Caroline Lawrence (The Roman Mysteries) and I have been mining the Wild West for inspiration lately.  If you like cowboys, adventure, villains, heroes, floosies and horses, check out The Case of the Deadly Desperados, Pull Out all the Stops and Cowboy Jess/Cowboy Jess Saddles Up. 
 
 
Paul King (Bunny And The Bull) brings his unique imagination and screen-writing skills to bear on Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan In Scarlet, the official sequel to the J M Barrie classic. With Neverland under threat from dark forces Pan has to call on some old friends to help restore order to the magical world. Infused with the mischievous spirit of Barrie's original, this restores a distinctly British flavour to the famous story and will be produced by Stewart Mackinnon at Headline Pictures.    BBC
 
Other BBC Films projects announced at the Cannes festival include adaptations of Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean's official sequel to the JM Barrie classic.   Daily Telegraph
 
BBC Films announced it planned to make a big screen adaptation of the official sequel to JM Barrie's Peter Pan.Peter Pan in Scarlet was written by Geraldine McCaughrean in 2006 and is now being written for film by Paul King.She was selected to write the long-awaited sequel after a competition run by Great Ormond Street Hospital, who own the rights to the books and the Barrie Estate.   Daily Mail
 

Tuesday 17 May – Launch of The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen in the United States by Harper Collins.  The spackfacious sequel to Stop the Train.

From a new and flourishing publisher Phoenix Yard Books, three new books by Geraldine:-

                      Monacello – The Little Monk, coming out on 28 April this year
                      Monacello – The Wish Bringer, March 2012 and
                      Monacello – Anything but Perfect, Septemberer 2012.


Hodder’s Children’s Books will be publishing a new picture book for younger readers by Geraldine later this year.Orchard Children’s Books are producing a new edition of   Stories From The Ballet in October this year.


New Editions of Myths and Legends of the World  are being launched this year by Orion Children’s Books:-
 

  Robin Hood and a World of Other Stories – April 2011             
King Arthur and a World of Other Stories  - June 2011
George and the Dragon and a World of Other Stories – September 2011

Orion are also re-launching Great Stories from British History,up-dated by Geraldine with a story from the 21st Century! This will be published in September this year.


They also re-issued Cowboy Jess and Cowboy Jess Rides Out in March.


And finally, the paperback edition of Pull Out All The Stops! will be published by O U P in early June this year.

 
 
 was short listed for the 2011 CARNEGIE MEDAL

        ‘Geraldine is the first author to have been short listed, by librarians, for    
         the Carnegie Medal six times, on at least one occasion in each of
         the past four decades, thus once again recognising the quality of her
         writing over the years’

 
This has contributed to Oxford University Press selling, of all my books they have published in the UK, a total of more than     ONE MILLION COPIES
 

 

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