The title of the sequel to Peter PanJ.M. Barrie’s children’s literary classichas been revealed. The new book, called Peter Pan in Scarlet, will reveal what happened to the boy who never grew up. . . . It will be published on 5 October this year.

London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, which owns the copyright to the story, commissioned author Geraldine McCaughrean to write the sequel. . . .

The trustees stipulated the book must feature the original charactersPeter, Wendy, Tinkerbell, the rest of the Darling family and the fearsome Captain Hook. They have read and approved McCaughrean’s recently-finished manuscript.

McCaughrean said: “Neverland was such a marvellous place to spend my year.”

—BBC News, Friday, 20 January 2006.