Fireside Reading of Peter Pan

Ever so beautiful and tragic Peter Pan was a favorite when I was a child. It was a lovely thing to dream of a place called Neverland, where one may fly with fairies and splash with mermaids. As an adult, you realize the truth of what Barrie himself once said… that he’d written a tragedy. Beautiful, se......more

I read this to Celyn. It's a short book. Google tells me 47,000 words but it felt shorter than that. Many of us know the story second hand through cartoons, Hollywood adaptations, and picture-books. The original item is not that dissimilar, though it's a fair bit more brutal than the cartoons and hav......more

ENGLISH (Peter Pan) / ITALIANO «All children, except one, grow up.» The incipit of Peter Pan of J.M. Barrie is the perfect synthesis of the book. I will try to make the point using as inspiration the words of a child, namely three phrases from my daughter Arianna while in the evening she was listening......more

Magical This week, I went to a local park, sat at a picnic table, and started to read Peter and Wendy to two children. Within seconds, every child in the park, all children that I didn’t even know, sat at the picnic table, engrossed in the story. Peter and Wendy is the story that we know as Peter Pa......more

Not gonna lie, I had to push myself to get through this. I just didn’t find it enjoyable in the slightest, which makes me feel like a loser since it’s such a beloved children’s classic. But at least I’m an honest loser? I didn’t really like Peter. Wendy annoyed me. And the humor and tone just fell flat f......more