Captain Hook Captain Hook Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. The character is a pirate captain of the brig "Jolly Roger." His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name. Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play,
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens When Peter is not playing, he likes to make graves for the children who get lost at night, burying them with little headstones in the Gardens. Most of the text of "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was included as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's earlier novel "The Little White Bird", published in 1902, with minor differences appearing on only nine pages of the separately published 1906 novel. "The Little White Bird" was published as a novel for adult readers; whereas "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was published specifically as a children's book. Scholar Jacqueline Rose perceives, however, that the book is