In "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," you'll enter a magical world where babies used to be part bird and kids can get confused about simple things. Meet Peter, a seven-day-old baby who believes he can fly and escapes from his home to return to Kensington Gardens. There, he learns he's not a bird anymore but more like a human. With a child-sized...More
Sir James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright known for creating Peter Pan, a story about a boy who never grows up and has magical adventures in Neverland with a girl named Wendy. Barrie lived in Scotland before moving to London where he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy's magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Peter Pan became his most popular work, overshadowing his other successful novels and plays. Barrie gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great...More
Sir James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright known for creating Peter Pan, a story about a boy who never grows up and has magical adventures in Neverland with a girl named Wendy. Barrie lived in Scotland before moving to London where he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy's magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Peter Pan became his most popular work, overshadowing his other successful novels and plays. Barrie gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children before his death, which still benefits from them today.
Book Summary
In "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens," you'll enter a magical world where babies used to be part bird and kids can get confused about simple things. Meet Peter, a seven-day-old baby who believes he can fly and escapes from his home to return to Kensington Gardens. There, he learns he's not a bird anymore but more like a human. With a child-sized thrush's nest, he navigates the gardens, befriends the fairies, and even plays the panpipes at their dances. After returning home to his mother and feeling sad about leaving her, he comes back to Kensington Gardens and meets a little girl named Maimie Mannering. They become good friends, and Maimie is like Wendy in the later story. The book takes you on a whimsical journey through a world where kids can misunderstand things and fairies dance at night in Kensington Gardens.
James matthew Barrie
