The very first Peter, Pan was an actress named-Nina Boucicault, in the first London production of J. M. Barrie's play in 1904. In the audience at one matinee was my mother, age four, with her elder brother and sister andtheir father. "The thing I remember best," said my mother to me a great deal later, "is Peter saying to the audience, 'Clap your hands if you believe in fairies'because your granddad dapped even louder than we did."

  So, more than forty years after-that, my parents and my granddad took my brother and meto see Peter Pan, and we, too, clapped our hands to bring the dying fairy Tinker Bell back to life...

The character of Peter Pan first came to life in the stories J. M. Barrie told to five brothers three of whom were named Peter, John, and Michael.Peter Pan is considered one of the greatest children"s stories of all time and continues to charm readers one hundred years after its first appearance as a play in 1904.

Foreword

1: PETER BREAKS THROUGH

2: THE SHADOW

3: COME AWAY, COME AWA

4: THE FLIGHT

5: THE ISLAND COME TRUE

6: THE LITlE HOUSE

7: THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND

8: THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON

9: THE NEVER BIRD

10: THE HAPPY HOME

11: WENDY’S STORY

12: THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF

13: DO You BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?

14: THE PIRATE SHIP

15: "HOOK OR ME THIS TIME"

16: THE RETURN HOME

17: WHEN WENDY GREW UP