Peter Pan (Scholastic Classics) – Paperback

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Second to the right and straight on till morning

That’s the way to Neverland, an island filled with adventure and hidden danger too! It’s home to beautiful mermaids and fairies, dastardly pirates ruled by the evil Captain Hook, a courageous tribe of Indians a hungry crocodile and the lost boys alike. Most of all, it is a place where you never have to do anything you don’t want to do – even grow up! And it’s where Peter Pan and his fairy friend, Ticker Bell, are bringing Wendy Darling and her brothers.

But once they see Neverland, will the Darling children ever want to go home again? If Captain Hook has his way, they might not be able to!

J.M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre.

In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.

Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

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Peter Pan (Scholastic Classics) - Paperback

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