The night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael, receives an extraordinary visitor when the magical Peter Pan arrives, teaches them to fly, and carries them across the sky to Never-Never Land, where Red Indians, wolves, mermaids and pirates await. Captain Hook leads the pirates, a sinister figure whose hand was bitten off by a crocodile that, as he explains, ‘liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me’. After a string of adventures, the story builds to an exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children face Captain Hook and his band in battle. The volume also includes Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the magical tale that first introduces the boy who never grows any older. Escaping his human form, Peter flies to Kensington Gardens, home to all his happy memories, where he meets the fairies, the thrushes and Old Caw the crow; but the fairies decide he is too human to be allowed to stay past Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island separating the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park. Arthur Rackham’s illustrations delightfully capture Peter’s adventures and his eventual meeting with Mamie and the goat.
ISBN 13: 9781853261206
Author: Sir J. M. Barrie
