Geraldine McCaughrean that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world. Her motto is: do not write about what you know, write about what you want to know. Her work includes many retellings of classic stories for children: "The Odyssey", "El Cid", "The Canterbury Tales", "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Moby Dick", "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" and "Gilgamesh". J. M. Barrie gave all rights to "Peter Pan" to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929, and in 2004, to coincide with "Peter Pan"'s centenary, the hospital launched a competition to find the author of a sequel. McCaughrean
Ron Ormond Ormond's first credit was 1948's "Dead Man's Gold". Ormond made his directing debut in "King of the Bullwhip" with La Rue in 1950. Ormond also wrote a series of Westerns starring former Hopalong Cassidy sidekicks James Ellison and Russell Hayden and filmed vaudeville acts for a film released by Robert L. Lippert. Western Adventure acquired re-issue rights to a number of Hal Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies, and distributed them along with their own productions. As the economics of producing B picture Westerns changed in the era of television, Ormond moved into other exploitation genres with films such as "Mesa