J. M. Barrie 50 min read

In Kensington Gardens after lock-out time, the baby Peter Pan flies off to live among the fairies and birds, a boy who never grew up before Neverland ever was.

J. M. Barrie's 1906 book gathers the earliest Peter Pan stories from 'The Little White Bird.' Enchanting, wistful, foundational children's fantasy. Read it for the tender origin of Peter Pan, the half-bird boy of the London gardens, from the creator of one of literature's immortal characters.

In its time

Published in 1906, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

50 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).