Top 100 Childrens Classic Novels: Peter and Wendy : The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (Paperback)

from Ceolach

The JM Barrie original bears only a passing resemblance to the 1953 Disney movie. Yes, all the characters are there, but what happens in the novel is much darker and deeper than the Disney-fied version. It is truly an examination of the inner child that refuses to grow up. We see both the good an...

from Griffin_Reads

Such a beautiful book...after growing up with more child-friendly Peter Pan adaptations, it was refreshing to read this novel. I loved the cruelness/childlike nature of Peter himself, as well as the interactions between him, the pirates, and the lost boys. It has its rightful place as being a cla...

from nmhale

A children's classic, much beloved by thousands of kids who have never even read the book (thanks to Disney and Tinkerbell). I finally got around to reading it and discovered that, unsurprisingly, the story was much more complex than the cartoon movie version might lead you to believe. We learn a...

from SeriousGrace

Because Peter Pan is such a well loved, well (over?) produced story, everyone knows the basic plot: three kids unhappy with the way their father has treated the family dog run away with an orphan boy to his Neverland (not to be confused with Michael's Never Land Ranch). Peter and his Lost Boys ar...

from justabookreader

My mom once told me that as a child I wouldn't sleep until she read me Peter Pan. It usually took three or four reads since I was a child who didn't care much for sleep. My mom had the story memorized and said if she turned the page too early, I would stop her to let her know she wasn't done with...