The five most popular posts are listed there at the right side of the page. I had no idea Mr. Smee was so popular before I started Hook's Waltz. But here are another five, with links, that I think deserve a little love as well.
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| By Mabel Lucie Atwell, 1921 |
Keeping faith
There are certain challenges of being true to a character who has been portrayed as many ways through the years as Peter has.
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| By Anne Graham Johnstone, 1988 |
Why they flew away
Why was it so easy for Peter Pan to convince the Darling children to join him in Neverland? The answer is less sinister than you might think.
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| Return to Neverland Happy Meal toys. 2002? |
Peter and the popular media
Movie tie-in toys have been around longer than McDonald's has.
(I wish now I had never gone searching for images of vintage Peter Pan toys. I guess there's a little more room in the display cabinet.)
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| Writer Maurice Hewlett. Not only did J. M Barrie recruit him for his struggling cricke team, he borrowed his son's name for one of the pirates in Peter Pan. |
Friends in unexpected places
James Matthew Barrie had no problem writing his friends into his stories, even if dreadful things happened to the characters.
Bonus: He also had no problem pressing them into service on perhaps the worst amateur cricket
team in history.
Sports and letters
Additional bonus:
The cricket rivalry has been resurrected!
A new sports rivalry between Authors and Actors
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| By Marjorie Torrey, 1957 |
Of kisses and lost children
And finally, my most personal take on the story of Peter Pan, with its expression of the indelible mark left by the death of a child.