Summary:
The classic story of a little boy who never grows up and firmly believes whatever he pretends. He whisks a little girl named Wendy and her two brothers away from their comfortable nursery and flies them to Neverland to fight pirates and play with mermaids and so that he and the lost boys can have a mother.
My Thoughts:This book makes the reader feel like they are caught in between a children’s game of make-believe and a bedtime story. The things that truly make this book stand out are the unexpected and truly innocent and child-like quirks (i.e. the lost boys’ solution to drive away wolves is to look between their legs at the wolves) and the surprisingly deep insight to characters (Hook’s strict upbringing at a private school which makes his deepest desire to be considered in “good form” rather than “bad form” and Peter’s uncommon relationship with mothers.) I did stall out a little in the middle of this book though. Sometimes one gets a bit annoyed with Peter and his antics.
Rating: ♦♦◊◊ Blurb: ” The cooking, I can tell you, kept her [Wendy] nose to the pot, and even if their was nothing in it, even though there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same. You never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter’s whim: he could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy which is what most children like better than anything else…”
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