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3.85 AVERAGE
I think I'd like to give this 5 stars. I can't exactly say why except that I feel like it.
This was surprisingly mesmerizing and difficult. I was not expecting this style of writing when I made the decision to have this as a read aloud for kids ages 8 and under. Even more unexpected is how much my children understood what was happening.
After starting out, I was doubting the decision to keep reading. The writing is more advanced and thorough than I anticipated, I thought I already knew the basic storyline, and it was, to be honest, sort of difficult to read aloud.
But I found so much more in this than I ever realized was in the story of Peter Pan. We read the last hundred pages in one sitting. I was mesmerized. There is so much to pick apart and I believe I'll be thinking about it for quite awhile.
The kids got a lot from it but I think adults will find even more. It's not often that I write down quotes from fictional books but this was one of them.
This was surprisingly mesmerizing and difficult. I was not expecting this style of writing when I made the decision to have this as a read aloud for kids ages 8 and under. Even more unexpected is how much my children understood what was happening.
After starting out, I was doubting the decision to keep reading. The writing is more advanced and thorough than I anticipated, I thought I already knew the basic storyline, and it was, to be honest, sort of difficult to read aloud.
But I found so much more in this than I ever realized was in the story of Peter Pan. We read the last hundred pages in one sitting. I was mesmerized. There is so much to pick apart and I believe I'll be thinking about it for quite awhile.
The kids got a lot from it but I think adults will find even more. It's not often that I write down quotes from fictional books but this was one of them.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Hvis man fjerner de noe rasistiske tendensene fra boken, er dette en sjarmerende og quirky fortelling om motviljen til å noensinne skulle vokse opp. I can relate :))
My six year old daughter fell in love with the Disney movie and I told her it was based on a book. Naturally she was bound and determined to read it with me. We listened to Christopher Casanove’s audio reading on the Audible Catalog and were both delighted.
There was some vocabulary and phraseology I needed to explain to my daughter but she loved it even more than the movie. It’s inspired an entire language arts unit in our homeschool that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Her creativity and imagination have blossomed thanks to Barrie’s tale.
We’ve enjoyed learning more about the author and the different renditions of this story throughout the years.
My daughter enjoys listening to the audiobook while she colors/draws and is on listen #6 currently.
There was some vocabulary and phraseology I needed to explain to my daughter but she loved it even more than the movie. It’s inspired an entire language arts unit in our homeschool that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Her creativity and imagination have blossomed thanks to Barrie’s tale.
We’ve enjoyed learning more about the author and the different renditions of this story throughout the years.
My daughter enjoys listening to the audiobook while she colors/draws and is on listen #6 currently.
This was a nice read. I always loved Peter Pan and finally reading the book was a great experience. I wanted to read this before going into Never by Jessa Hastings and I feel like I can see many traits or facets of Peter and Neverland she can expand on.
Peter is high-key toxic tho LOL which you could surmise from just the adaptations but it is quite prominent in the book.
For kids this could be such a cute, magical experience.
Peter is high-key toxic tho LOL which you could surmise from just the adaptations but it is quite prominent in the book.
For kids this could be such a cute, magical experience.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i enjoyed this! it was a fun, adventurous and through provoking read!
4.5 Stars
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"But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." -C.S. Lewis
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Re-read years after having to first read it in AP English, and, I'll say, this book is much more delightful and magical without having a Professor there to ruin it
The plot is as everyone knows and loves, with a few incredibly dark points and scenes we tend to shy away from to forget, in order to still keep hold of the magic. The writing is charming, silly, and humorous. The world is built in such an adventurous and fanciful way that it is no small wonder, I believe, all children have, at one point, dreamed themselves being whisked off to Neverland. The main characters (mainly Peter and Wendy) serve as perfect foils to each other. Peter, the boy who won't grow up, and Wendy, the girl who can't wait to grow up. Side Characters are formed with bursting personalities, each one unique and interesting. What Barrie can do with one chapter and multiple characters is much more than what most authors do with one character and a whole book (or even a whole series). While these characters may not be dynamic in any means, Barrie has created characters that are vibrant, and alive, with no need to go through any growth with how perfectly created they are.
I would recommend this book to ages 12+. While this book is labeled as a children's book, today's children didn't necessarily grow up on the dark fairy tales (i.e. the original Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rupunzel, etc.) like previous generations did. This book does contain mild sexist statements and stereotypes. There are multiple killings throughout the book, both from Hook and Pan. Just like with 'Lord of the Flies', this book deals with the psychology, morality, and innocence of young children. There is also diction used throughout the book that isn't common in today's society (i.e. today's definition of 'orgy' is different from when Barrie wrote the book). Peter Pan is not a good role model in the slightest, and younger children may not grasp that this story is a warning against not growing up.
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Notable Quotes:
-All children, except one, grow up.
- She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan. If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss.
- “That fiend!” Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
-“I wasn't crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly. “I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.”
-“Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.
“Do you really think so, Peter?”
“Yes, I do.”
-“Yes,” said cunning Peter, “but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship.”
“Are none of the others girls?”
“Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
-Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story.
-Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
-At once the lost boys—but where are they? They are no longer there. Rabbits could not have disappeared more quickly.
-“Not of crocodiles,” Hook corrected him, “but of that one crocodile.” He lowered his voice. “It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me.”
“In a way,” said Smee, “it's sort of a compliment.”
“I want no such compliments,” Hook barked petulantly.
-“See,” he said, “the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.”
“I remember kisses,” Slightly interposed quickly, “let me see it. Ay, that's a kiss.”
-Hook tried a more ingratiating manner. “If you are Hook,” he said almost humbly, “come tell me, who am I?”
“A codfish,” replied the voice, “only a codfish.”
“A codfish!” Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke.
-“Hook,” he called, “have you another voice?”
Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, “I have.”
“And another name?” “Ay, ay.”
“Vegetable?” asked Hook. “No.”
“Mineral?” “No.” “Animal?” “Yes.”
“Man?”“No!” This answer rang out scornfully.
“Boy?” “Yes.” “Ordinary boy?” “No!”
“Wonderful boy?” To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was “Yes.”
-Quick as thought he snatched a knife from Hook's belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock than his foe. It would not have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand to help him up.
-“It can't lift two; Michael and Curly tried.”
“Let us draw lots,” Wendy said bravely.
"And you a lady; never.” Already he had tied the tail round her. She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. Peter was alone on the lagoon.
-Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
-She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still
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"But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." -C.S. Lewis
---
Re-read years after having to first read it in AP English, and, I'll say, this book is much more delightful and magical without having a Professor there to ruin it
The plot is as everyone knows and loves, with a few incredibly dark points and scenes we tend to shy away from to forget, in order to still keep hold of the magic. The writing is charming, silly, and humorous. The world is built in such an adventurous and fanciful way that it is no small wonder, I believe, all children have, at one point, dreamed themselves being whisked off to Neverland. The main characters (mainly Peter and Wendy) serve as perfect foils to each other. Peter, the boy who won't grow up, and Wendy, the girl who can't wait to grow up. Side Characters are formed with bursting personalities, each one unique and interesting. What Barrie can do with one chapter and multiple characters is much more than what most authors do with one character and a whole book (or even a whole series). While these characters may not be dynamic in any means, Barrie has created characters that are vibrant, and alive, with no need to go through any growth with how perfectly created they are.
I would recommend this book to ages 12+. While this book is labeled as a children's book, today's children didn't necessarily grow up on the dark fairy tales (i.e. the original Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rupunzel, etc.) like previous generations did. This book does contain mild sexist statements and stereotypes. There are multiple killings throughout the book, both from Hook and Pan. Just like with 'Lord of the Flies', this book deals with the psychology, morality, and innocence of young children. There is also diction used throughout the book that isn't common in today's society (i.e. today's definition of 'orgy' is different from when Barrie wrote the book). Peter Pan is not a good role model in the slightest, and younger children may not grasp that this story is a warning against not growing up.
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Notable Quotes:
-All children, except one, grow up.
- She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan. If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss.
- “That fiend!” Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
-“I wasn't crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly. “I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.”
-“Wendy,” he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.
“Do you really think so, Peter?”
“Yes, I do.”
-“Yes,” said cunning Peter, “but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship.”
“Are none of the others girls?”
“Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
-Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story.
-Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
-At once the lost boys—but where are they? They are no longer there. Rabbits could not have disappeared more quickly.
-“Not of crocodiles,” Hook corrected him, “but of that one crocodile.” He lowered his voice. “It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me.”
“In a way,” said Smee, “it's sort of a compliment.”
“I want no such compliments,” Hook barked petulantly.
-“See,” he said, “the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.”
“I remember kisses,” Slightly interposed quickly, “let me see it. Ay, that's a kiss.”
-Hook tried a more ingratiating manner. “If you are Hook,” he said almost humbly, “come tell me, who am I?”
“A codfish,” replied the voice, “only a codfish.”
“A codfish!” Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke.
-“Hook,” he called, “have you another voice?”
Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, “I have.”
“And another name?” “Ay, ay.”
“Vegetable?” asked Hook. “No.”
“Mineral?” “No.” “Animal?” “Yes.”
“Man?”“No!” This answer rang out scornfully.
“Boy?” “Yes.” “Ordinary boy?” “No!”
“Wonderful boy?” To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was “Yes.”
-Quick as thought he snatched a knife from Hook's belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock than his foe. It would not have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand to help him up.
-“It can't lift two; Michael and Curly tried.”
“Let us draw lots,” Wendy said bravely.
"And you a lady; never.” Already he had tied the tail round her. She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a “Good-bye, Wendy,” he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. Peter was alone on the lagoon.
-Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
-She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A