Peter Pan in Scarlet
The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan! In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and...
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The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan! In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer and set in the 1930s, Peter Pan in Scarlet takes readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling derring-do!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416918080 (1416918086)
Publish date: October 5th 2006
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
This review can also be found at: Blogger & Goodreads. Where do I start, it should come to no surprise to me that this sequel wasn't going to be very good, yet somehow it was a surprise. Strange I know, but there is a logic to this. For me the surprising bit was the fact that the story went in a w...
I had really high hopes for this story because it’s an official sequel to Peter Pan. [Barrie left the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital and they in turn approved this sequel.] The premise of this story had a lot of potential. Something is wrong in Neverland. Neverland is slipping...
A book I thought would be good but instead turned out to be mostly boring.
I may get some flak for this, but I think I liked this better than Peter Pan and Wendy. The latter was a better piece of writing I think, but this story takes more care with the characters, has a solid storyline and actually made me care about what was happening and to whom it was happening. I'm def...