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.