Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn Davies boys, who were virtually adopted by Barrie after being orphaned. This edition has F.D. Bedford's illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There 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.

J.M. Barrie

Fantasy

25 characters.

Scenes: the nursery, Never Land (in three: land, sea, house beneath), deck of a ship. The everlasting classic account of two boys and a girl who follow Peter Pan and the invisible fairy, Tinker Bell, into Never Land, where children never grow old and where Captain Hook and his pirates are outwitted. Performed by Maude Adams, Jean Arthur, Mary Martin.

"The magic is as great as ever."- The New York Daily News

Enjoy the classic children's tale of Peter Pan and the Darling children, and their adventures in Neverland. First published in 1911, it remains a marvelous mix of fantasy and adventure, featuring unique, imaginative characters which frisk and frolic in an enchanting land. The Darling household is a place of joy for the three children, Wendy, John, and Michael, their loving parents, nurse, and a dog named Nana. But, at night, sneaking in to listen to Mrs. Darling's bedtime stories is Peter Pan. One night he is seen, but when trying to stop him as he flies out the window, only his shadow his caught. When returning for his shadow Peter accidentally wakes Wendy. He convinces Wendy and her brothers to return to Neverland with him and his fairy Tinker Bell. So off they fly over the rooftops of London to many adventures in magical Neverland.