It only took about a hundred years or so, but the sequel to “Peter Pan” is finally due out later this year. Even thought the original author, J.M. Barrie , died nearly 70 years ago, this sequel is official, commissioned by the original book’s copyright holders, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Barrie willed the rights to his creation to the hospital, and they’ve benefitted from it’s royalties ever since. Hopefully the sequel, “Peter Pan in Scarlet,” will prove to be as excellent a read and as successful a source of income for years to come.

LONDON — Geraldine McCaughrean’s sequel to the “Peter Pan” classic will be published this fall, but the only information available about it now is its title — “Peter Pan in Scarlet.”

The book by the award-winning children’s author promises readers “high adventure, dramatic tensions and all the swashbuckling, danger and derring-do they can handle.”

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children owns the copyright to the original J.M. Barrie story about the boy who never grew up.

After a worldwide search for an author, the hospital trustees chose McCaughrean to write the sequel. The trust stipulated that the book must feature the original characters: Peter, Wendy, Tinkerbell, the rest of the Darling family and the fearsome Captain Hook.

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