內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:All children grow up . . . Except one. "He is Peter Pan, you know, mother," says Wendy. At first Mrs. Darling does not know the name. Then thinking back into her childhood, she remembers a Peter Pan, said to live with the fairies . . . and odd stories about him -- for instance that when children died he went part of the way with them, so they should not feel frightened.
She had believed in him at the time. Now that she is married and full of sense she quite doubts there is any such person. "Besides," Mrs. Darling says to Wendy, "surely he would be grown up by this time!" J.M. Barrie's beloved tribute to eternal childhood, Peter Pan, has fascinated and entertained millions since its first publication in 1904. The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Illustrations compiled from late nineteenth and early twentieth century editions of the book.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:J.M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892. Peter Pan, first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story of Peter Pan first appeared in book form (titled Peter and Wendy, and later Peter Pan and Wendy) in 1911.
Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.Susan Cooper, one of today's most distinguished children's book writers, won a Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor for books in her fantasy sequence, The Dark is Rising. She is also the author of King of Shadows, a Boston Globe -- Horn Book Honor Book, and Green Boy, which was called "an intriguing and truly lovely book" by the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, and her Web site is at www.thelostland.com.