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Peter Pan in Scarlet
by Geraldine McCaughrean, Scott M. Fischer
Peter Pan is such a special book to me, I grew up captivated by the boy who never grew up. Finding out that this book existed was an amazing find, and I went into it cautiously optimistic.
Peter Pan in Scarlet was what I hoped for. It was a beautiful story that weaved magic like the original, taking common things like putting dreams away, or looking for a child, and turned them into something wonderful.
It was original, a new story with those I had loved and grown up with, not a retelling of the original. She brought back the characters in their own new adventure.
At times it was hard. It was dark, and it was upsetting. The blackness that covered Neverland threatened me almost as much as it did Peter and the Darlings. The joys filled me up almost as much as them as well.
The original cast so much sadness on growing up, and I was afraid I would feel the same. But this was different. Growing up wasn't a punishment, so much as a sacrifice for love. Because to grow up is to lose things. But to gain things as well.
"But at heart the girl Wendy was a grown-up (just as all grown-ups are, at heart, children)."
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Geraldine McCaughrean
Peter Pan in Scarlet was what I hoped for. It was a beautiful story that weaved magic like the original, taking common things like putting dreams away, or looking for a child, and turned them into something wonderful.
It was original, a new story with those I had loved and grown up with, not a retelling of the original. She brought back the characters in their own new adventure.
At times it was hard. It was dark, and it was upsetting. The blackness that covered Neverland threatened me almost as much as it did Peter and the Darlings. The joys filled me up almost as much as them as well.
The original cast so much sadness on growing up, and I was afraid I would feel the same. But this was different. Growing up wasn't a punishment, so much as a sacrifice for love. Because to grow up is to lose things. But to gain things as well.
"But at heart the girl Wendy was a grown-up (just as all grown-ups are, at heart, children)."
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Geraldine McCaughrean