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====''Peter Pan in Scarlet''====
[[Geraldine McCaughrean]]'s [[Peter Pan in Scarlet|authorized sequel]] to ''Peter Pan'' gives Peter a new nemesis, while bringing back the old favourite.

Ravello, a [[circus]] man in a constantly ragged woollen [[coat (clothing)|coat]], volunteers to become Peter's valet in the search for the [[treasure]]. Ravello provides a red coat (that formerly belonged to Hook) and a bad influence, influencing Peter increasingly to become more and more like Captain Hook. He sees himself not as a living person; he never sleeps and eats only [[egg (food)|eggs]]. He is revealed in the middle of the book to be the old James Hook, who escaped the [[crocodile]] when the animal's stomach contractions broke the [[vial]] of [[poison]] Hook kept with him at all times. The poison killed the crocodile, and Hook used his [[Prosthesis|hook]] to claw his way out, but he was [[mutated]] by the [[stomach acid]] into an uglier man with a scarred visage—vastly different in appearance from the noble pirate. He then assumed a new identity of Ravello, owner of a travelling circus, complete with [[lions]], [[tigers]], and [[bears]].

A clue to Ravello's true identity is given when one of the Lost Boys asks Ravello his name: he thinks for a while as if trying to remember, and finally says the name his mother gave him was Crichton, but that names given by mothers don't mean anything.