Gillian Cross

Gillian Cross (* 1945 in London ) is a British children's author.

Life

Cross studied English in Oxford and Sussex and lives with her family in Gravesend . In 1990 she won the Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf , in 1992 the Whitbread Award in the children's book category for The Great Elephant Chase and in 2014 the Little Rebels Award .

She also wrote the series The Demon Headmaster , which later became the basis of a BBC television series .

Works

• The Iron Way . 1979.
• Revolt at Ratcliffe's Rags . 1980.
• A whisper of lace . 1981.
  • The Exeter Falcon . 1981.
• The Dark Behind the Curtain . 1982.
• The Demon Headmaster Series:
  1. The Demon Headmaster . 1982.
  2. The Prime Minister's Brain . 1985.
  3. The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster . 1994.
  4. The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again . 1996.
  5. The Demon Headmaster Takes Over . 1997.
  6. Beware of the Demon Headmaster . 2002.
• Born of the Sun . 1983.
• On the edge . 1984.
• The Runaway . 1986.
• Swimathon! 1986.
• Chart breaker . 1986.
• Roscoe's Leap . 1987.
• A Map of Nowhere . 1988.
• Rescuing Gloria . 1989.
• Wolf . 1990.
• The Monster from Underground . 1990.
• Twin and super twin . 1990.
• The Mintyglo Kid . 1991.
• Gobbo the Great . 1991.
• Rent-a-Genius . 1991.
• Save Our School . 1991.
• The Great Elephant Chase . 1992.
• The Tree House . 1993.
• The Furry Maccaloo . 1993.
• Beware Olga! 1993.
• What Will Emily Do? 1994.
• Goodbye in cyberspace . 1994.
• A totally crazy school day . 1995.
• Posh Watson . 1995.
• Pictures in the Dark . 1996.
• The Roman Beanfeast . 1996.
• The Goose Girl . 1998.
• Tightrope . 1999.
• Down with the Dirty Danes! 2000.
• Phoning a Dead Man . 2001.
• The Treasure in the Mud . 2001.
• Dark Ground trilogy aka The Lost trilogy:
  1. The green abyss . 2004.
  2. The black room . 2005.
  3. The nightmare game . 2006.
• Sam Sorts It Out . 2005.
• Brother Aelred's Feet . 2007.
• Where I belong . 2010.
  • The beautiful Khadija . 2010.

literature

• Bartholomäus Figatowski: Where a child has never been before ... - Images of childhood and youth in science fiction for young readers. Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-929386-35-6 , pp. 320–336. (to Cross' children's novel Goodbye in Cyberspace )

Web links

• Gillian Cross official homepage
• Literature by and about Gillian Cross in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works on the website of the British Council (English)
• Gillian Cross in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Gillian Cross at Fantastic Fiction

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emily Drabble: Gillian Cross wins Little Rebels book award. In: The Guardian. May 10, 2014, accessed July 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Little Rebels Award: The 2014 Winning Little Rebel Is… In: littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com. Little Rebels Children's Book Award, May 12, 2014, accessed July 8, 2015 .