BOOKS: Peter Pan In Scarlet

I am off work this weekend and I am going to see if Marsha wants to take a trip to the bookstore to look for this book. I am sure she won't mind at all going to the bookstore, you guys know about Marsha and books!

LONDON (AFP) - The first official sequel to Peter Pan, entitled "Peter Pan in Scarlet," hit bookstores in Britain and 30 other countries Thursday, 100 years after Scottish author JM Barrie created the character.

In the new book, Wendy is now a wife and mother.

"They've grown up.... the first thing they have to do is to become children again so that they can go back to Neverland," McCaughrean said."

And when they get there, they find Neverland seriously changed.

It's colder, and more dangerous and more frightening than it was before," she told BBC radio." Peter Pan is the same, anarchic little demon as he always was.

Tinkerbell is not there at the beginning of the book but there's a new fairy, called Fireflyer, who is all bent on meeting her," she said.

Captain Hook's spirit is stalking Neverland and newcomers include mysterious circus master "The Great Ravello," and a male fairy Fireflyer.

"This is the biggest dilemma that faced me because he disappeared into a crocodile and I don't do ghosts. But his ship is still floating on the lagoon and his spirit of evil is still lurking," she said.