‘Peter Pan’ gets official sequel
From Associated Press
Peter Pan and the wily Captain Hook are set for a rematch.
Children’s author Geraldine McCaughrean has been chosen to write the official sequel to J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” the London hospital that holds the copyright to the classic work said.
Barrie willed the “Peter Pan” copyright and royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital when he died in 1937 and the institution has long wanted to commission a follow-up. It has stipulated that the new work, titled “Captain Pan,” must feature the original characters.
McCaughrean, 53, is a three-time winner of Britain’s prestigious Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year.
