JennyPen
20-01-2006, 22:03
I just got this circular in my inbox - OMG!!! I don't know whether to think "wow, that's amazing" or "they can't do THAT!!"
Title for official Peter Pan sequel announced this Friday
Oxford Children’s Books and the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children are delighted to announce that the title of Geraldine McCaughrean’s official sequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan will be Peter Pan in Scarlet.
Geraldine McCaughrean has delivered the finished manuscript and the novel is being prepared for publication on October 5th 2006. Peter Pan in Scarlet shares most of the same enchanting characters as the original. It captures the elusive spirit of JM Barrie’s work whilst offering a fresh and outstanding creative response. Like the original, it will appeal to both adults and children alike. An illustrator is currently being sought who can enrich the novel in the same way Arthur Rackham’s haunting and dreamlike images illuminated Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906).
Set in the 1930s the new story of Peter Pan in Scarlet is a closely guarded secret but readers are promised high adventure, dramatic tension and all the swashbuckling, danger and derring-do they can handle.
Geraldine is thrilled that her manuscript has received the seal of approval from both OUP and the Special Trustees. ‘Neverland was such a marvellous place to spend my year: I clean forgot Barrie’s ghost might be reading the computer screen over my shoulder – forgot to worry whether the necessary people would like what I wrote. Mind you, that’s a good sign. When a book’s a joy to write, some of the fun often snags on the letters and gets trapped between the pages.’
Jane Collins, Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children said: ‘The gift of Peter Pan was the most generous present JM Barrie could possibly have given to the hospital, a cause close to his heart. We are delighted that Geraldine's book has captured the essence of his timeless creation and that she has produced a work that will take its place as a much-loved book, alongside the original Peter Pan. The success of Peter Pan in Scarlet will ensure that Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children will benefit from Barrie's legacy for many years to come.’
OUP Children’s Publisher, Liz Cross comments, ‘Geraldine has a unique ability to enter the spirit of an original text, but to bring her own spark of originality and illumination to it, and this wonderful sequel to Peter Pan is no exception to that. Here she takes us to a Neverland that's now a world full of dark uncertainties and mystery, and steers a cliff-hanging course through
quicksand, chasms, and high mountains. It's a story that had me utterly hooked from the start, and that can't fail to grip anyone who has ever dreamed of adventure and exploration.’
Title for official Peter Pan sequel announced this Friday
Oxford Children’s Books and the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children are delighted to announce that the title of Geraldine McCaughrean’s official sequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan will be Peter Pan in Scarlet.
Geraldine McCaughrean has delivered the finished manuscript and the novel is being prepared for publication on October 5th 2006. Peter Pan in Scarlet shares most of the same enchanting characters as the original. It captures the elusive spirit of JM Barrie’s work whilst offering a fresh and outstanding creative response. Like the original, it will appeal to both adults and children alike. An illustrator is currently being sought who can enrich the novel in the same way Arthur Rackham’s haunting and dreamlike images illuminated Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906).
Set in the 1930s the new story of Peter Pan in Scarlet is a closely guarded secret but readers are promised high adventure, dramatic tension and all the swashbuckling, danger and derring-do they can handle.
Geraldine is thrilled that her manuscript has received the seal of approval from both OUP and the Special Trustees. ‘Neverland was such a marvellous place to spend my year: I clean forgot Barrie’s ghost might be reading the computer screen over my shoulder – forgot to worry whether the necessary people would like what I wrote. Mind you, that’s a good sign. When a book’s a joy to write, some of the fun often snags on the letters and gets trapped between the pages.’
Jane Collins, Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children said: ‘The gift of Peter Pan was the most generous present JM Barrie could possibly have given to the hospital, a cause close to his heart. We are delighted that Geraldine's book has captured the essence of his timeless creation and that she has produced a work that will take its place as a much-loved book, alongside the original Peter Pan. The success of Peter Pan in Scarlet will ensure that Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children will benefit from Barrie's legacy for many years to come.’
OUP Children’s Publisher, Liz Cross comments, ‘Geraldine has a unique ability to enter the spirit of an original text, but to bring her own spark of originality and illumination to it, and this wonderful sequel to Peter Pan is no exception to that. Here she takes us to a Neverland that's now a world full of dark uncertainties and mystery, and steers a cliff-hanging course through
quicksand, chasms, and high mountains. It's a story that had me utterly hooked from the start, and that can't fail to grip anyone who has ever dreamed of adventure and exploration.’