| Description |
1 unnumbered page,125 pages,16plates : illustrations(some color), 1map ; 24cm |
| Summary |
"J.M. Barrie's novel The Little White Bird (1902) "contains the first sketches for Peter Pan. The narrator is 'a gentle, whimsical, lonely old bachelor', an author by profession, whose ambition is to have a son. He meets a penniless young couple whose own son David becomes a substitute in his affections. He explains to David that 'all children in our part of London were once birds in the Kensington Gardens; and that the reason there are bars on nursery windows and a tall fender by the fire is because very little people sometimes forget that they no longer have wings, and try to fly away through the window or up the chimney.' The central chapters of the book tell the story of one such child, Peter Pan, who 'escaped from being a human when he was seven days old and flew back to the Kensington Gardens' The Peter Pan chapters of The Little White Bird were re-issued in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with colour plates by Arthur Rackham; this was the book which first made Rackham's work famous."--abebooks website |
| Analysis |
Children's stories in English, 1900- Texts |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1951 |
| Subject |
Kensington Gardens (London) -- Juvenile fiction
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Children's stories.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator
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| ISBN |
0340037385 |
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