One Thousand And One Arabian Nights Geraldine Mccaughrean Lovereading - -Year 3 (age 7-8) More books from this list Book 20 of 28. View the next book in this list View the next book in this list This title is in stock Price £4.49 RRP £5.99  Saving £1.50 (%25)   Download Extract    Buy This Book

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Queen Shaharazad tells stories to her murdering husband, King Shahryar, every night, to delay her inevitable execution. He is so intrigued in the magical stories Shaharazad tells, he can't bring himself to kill her. He starts to realise that he won't be able to live without them.

About The Author

Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951) trained as a teacher but learned only that she was useless at teaching. So she worked instead as a sub at a partwork magazine company, perfect training in cutting to length, abandoning pretentions and writing blurbs. A Carnegie Medallist, three-time winner of the Whitbread and the very first recipient of the Blue Peter Book Award, she has written almost 150 books and plays. In 2006 she was blessed with the chance to write the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan at the behest of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Peter Pan in Scarlet has been translated into 38 other languages.

Anne Fine on Geraldine McCaughrean:

'I reckon Geraldine McCaughrean knocks the socks off every other children's writer today. Everything she does is different and everything works – look at her list of prizes. She must write in tremendous bursts. Some years, she's so prolific the rest of us start joking that the fairies come in at night to do her work for her. Then she'll go quiet, so unlike all those writers who are persuaded by their publishers to come up with something every year, no matter how tired or drab. If Geraldine has nothing fresh to write, she doesn't write it.' (The Guardian)