Book: Peter Pan in Scarlet
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Pages: 320
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Reviewed by: Ana
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Review By Ana

'The novel sees the return of Wendy Darling, her brother John and adopted brothers Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, the Twins and Curly, who were once Peter Pan's Lost Boys. At the end of Peter Pan and Wendy, Wendy, John and Michael Darling, who has died previously, brought the Lost Boys home to London where Mr. and Mrs. Darling adopted them. The novel opens with John Darling and his wife denying the existence of vivid, realistic dreams about Neverland that John keeps having, which brings back different relics of his time in Neverland as a child: a cutlass, a pistol, et cetera.

We discover that each of the Lost Boys and Wendy have also been having these vivid dreams of Neverland and Wendy arrives at the conclusion that bombs from the Great War have punched holes through their world into Neverland and dreams and ideas are filtering through. Wendy tells the former Lost Boys, now known as Old Boys, that they must find a way of returning to Neverland and helping Peter Pan return both worlds to normalcy.'

This great book which is the official sequel to the best selling 'Peter Pan' by JM Barrie is filled with fantasy great new characters and a lot of the old ones this book has enough adventures, comedy, drama and pixie dust to make the reader enjoy once again the magical 'Neverland'.