I still can't get the fairy orgy out of my mind. I mean, even if Tinkerbell and her flickering friends really were getting at it in the forest just to kill the time, did Barrie really have to unveil this to us before the kids had gone to bed? ( )

Writing: 4.5; Theme: 4.5; Content: 4.5; Language: 5.0; Overall: 4.5

The adventures of Peter Pan, the Wild Boys, and the Darling children. Highly recommend.

***April 8, 2024*** ( )

It’s great when you’ve seen the Disney film before reading the book. Parts of it seem weird when you’re imagining them as the Disney characters rather than the versions of them in the book. Especially with the conflict between Pan and Hook. However in this Pan is completely different to how they portray him in the Disney version (as that’s the only film I’ve seen) because the Book Peter is weird to say.

Despite having a different feel to modern books it was a decent read. Commonly reading it in school also made it a great read.

And still with the 150 page length, I still took a long time to read it. ( )

I started reading this to better understand a more recent novel, Darling Girl by Liz Michalski. Not sure I can finish this. It is so scary and inhumane. I am shocked. The original could not have been written as a children's story. How many people know this?? ( )

We all know the story of the boy who never grew up - or at least we think we know the story, as it has been adapted so very many times for the big screen. But the original is an astonishingly good read - the final chapter is the most bittersweet I can think of in children's literature. Beautiful. ( )