"I'm afraid of flying", said the little angel. "And I'm terrified of wolves", said Micah the shepherd boy. The little angel and Micah meet one special, magical night, when anything can happen. Hand in hand they go to see the newborn king in Bethlehem - and discover that their lives will never be the same again.
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Geraldine McCaughrean has created over one hundred books for children and adults, many of which have won prestigious awards, including the Carnegie Medal, The Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award the Blue Peter Book Award. For Orchard, she has retold classic stories in her much acclaimed gift collections, and has also written picture books How The Reindeer Got Their Antlers and Unicorns! Unicorns! Her latest book for Orchard is the short novel, Jalopy. Geraldine lives in Berkshire.
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It's 30 years now since I first got published, and 50 since I found out how writing let me step outside my little, everyday world and go wherever I chose - way back in Time, to far distant shores, towards my own, home-made happy ending. Not that all my books are an easy ride. I write adventure, first and foremost, because that's what I enjoyed reading as a child. But since I have published over 150 books now, there are all manner of books in among that number - gorgeously illustated picture books, easy readers, prize winners, teenage books and five adult novels.
The White Darkness won the Printz Award in the USA, which, for as Englishwoman, was the most amazing, startling thrill.
Then there was Peter Pan in Scarlet - official sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan, written on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hopsital for Sick Children. I won the chance to write that in a worldwide competition, and because Peter Pan is loved everywhere, my book sold worldwide too. I can't say I expected that when, as a child, I dreamed of being like my older brother and getting a book published one day.
These days I have a husband (who's good at continuity and spelling) and a daughter who is an excellent editor. But she's at the Royal Academy of Dramtic Art now, studying to become an actor. So, naturally, I have turned my hand to writing plays. (So many actors, so few plays!)
My Mum told me, "Never boil your cabbages twice, dear," which was her way of saying, "Don't repeat yourself." So I have tried never to write the same book twice. You'll find all my novels quite different from one another. I have also done lots of retellings of myth, legend, folk and fairy tales, and adapted indigestible classics such as El Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Moby Dick, Shakespeare and the Pilgrim's Progress.
Something for everyone, you see, my dear young, not-so-young, eccentric, middle-of-the-road, poetical, sad, cheerful, timid or reckless reader.
All they have in common is that they all contain words. If you are allergic to words, you'd best not open the covers.
The White Darkness won the Printz Award in the USA, which, for as Englishwoman, was the most amazing, startling thrill.
Then there was Peter Pan in Scarlet - official sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan, written on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hopsital for Sick Children. I won the chance to write that in a worldwide competition, and because Peter Pan is loved everywhere, my book sold worldwide too. I can't say I expected that when, as a child, I dreamed of being like my older brother and getting a book published one day.
These days I have a husband (who's good at continuity and spelling) and a daughter who is an excellent editor. But she's at the Royal Academy of Dramtic Art now, studying to become an actor. So, naturally, I have turned my hand to writing plays. (So many actors, so few plays!)
My Mum told me, "Never boil your cabbages twice, dear," which was her way of saying, "Don't repeat yourself." So I have tried never to write the same book twice. You'll find all my novels quite different from one another. I have also done lots of retellings of myth, legend, folk and fairy tales, and adapted indigestible classics such as El Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Moby Dick, Shakespeare and the Pilgrim's Progress.
Something for everyone, you see, my dear young, not-so-young, eccentric, middle-of-the-road, poetical, sad, cheerful, timid or reckless reader.
All they have in common is that they all contain words. If you are allergic to words, you'd best not open the covers.
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Most touching line,
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This review is from: Little Angel (Orchard Picturebooks) (Paperback)
Beautiful book of pictures and words. One of my favorite lines in all childrens books "opened his eyes wide as wide to see everything and remember it all, all of his life". What a dramatic description of the little angel meeting the son of God.
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A Chistmas classic,
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This review is from: Little Angel Hb (Picture Books) (Hardcover)
This is one of my very favorite Christmas books to share with children. Heartbreakingly beautiful pictures and wonderful story. It's a shame it is not more widely available, everyone should own this one!
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Don't confuse the kids!,
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This review is from: Little Angel Hb (Picture Books) (Hardcover)
Christmas is sacred to me, and it's something that should be taught to young children in a way that does not confuse fact with fiction. Fantasy stories that are clearly about things unrelated to the actual birth of Christ are fine as long as they are not promoted as truth. The real events surrounding the birth of Jesus should not be told with fantasy of such a degree mixed in. If you want your kids to know the Truth, especially if they are very young, don't read this to them, and make sure they don't really believe in Santa Clause either, 'cause if they do, then when they find out one day that he is not real, they might wonder if Jesus is real or just a fairy tale too.
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