Create an account to contribute to this site!

From Neverpedia

cover of The Story of Peter Pan

The Story of Peter Pan is a short retelling of the story of Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, published with color illustrations in 1926 by Charles E. Graham & Co. of Newark, New Jersey. It credits J. M. Barrie as the author of "the fairy play", but does not credit the person who did the adaptation, or even the artist. (Each illustration is carefully marked with a generic © symbol, however.)

Graham was a publisher of children's books, which this clearly was, telling the story as one might present it to a small child. For example, after introducing Nana, it says, "Isn't that extraordinary? Imagine being put to bed at night and awakened in the morning, and hauled out of bed – no matter how cold – and plumped into your bath by a dog." Nana is shown standing on her hind legs wearing an apron, which is directly contrary to Barrie's wry stage directions that she "must never be on two legs except on those rare occasions when an ordinary nurse would be on all four".

In the history of its ever-changing name, the book refers to Peter's home as "Never-Never-Land".

The book has a cloth binding and pressboard cover overlaid with paper. In addition to the cover, it has a color illustration repeated on the inside covers, six full-page color illustrations, black and white line drawings sprinkled through the text, and the title page is framed in a line drawing. The story is told in 27 pages (including illustrations).

inside covers	title page	sample page

• Buy The Story of Peter Pan from an independent bookseller