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| - Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy (1911) is the title of Barrie's novelisation of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were both inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The novel follows the play closely, but includes a final chapter not part of the original play.
- The novel's two title characters are Peter Pan and Wendy Darling. Wendy Darling is the oldest of three children from a middle-class English family. She and her two younger brothers, John and Michael, first become aware of Peter Pan in their dreams. Peter Pan is the only boy in the world who has the ability to stay young forever. He can fly and he lives on the island of Neverland. Wendy begins to suspect that Peter Pan sometimes enters the bedroom that she shares with John and Michael while she is asleep. This proves to be true. When Peter Pan accidentally wakes Wendy up one evening, he tells her that he comes to her house to hear the stories that her mother tells her and her brothers. Peter then tells those stories to the six other boys, known as the Lost Boys, who live with him in Neverla
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| - Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy (1911) is the title of Barrie's novelisation of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were both inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The novel follows the play closely, but includes a final chapter not part of the original play. The play debuted in London on 27 December 1904 with Nina Boucicault, daughter of playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. A Broadway production was mounted in 1905 starring Maude Adams. It was later revived with such actresses as Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne. The play has since seen adaptation as a pantomime, stage musical, a television special, and several films, including a 1924 silent film, a 1953 animated Disney full-length feature, and a 2003 live action production with state-of-the-art special effects. The play is now rarely performed in its original form on stage in the United Kingdom, whereas pantomime adaptations are frequently staged around Christmas. In the U.S., the original version has also been supplanted in popularity, by the 1954 musical version, which became popular on television. The novel was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States. The original book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by artist F. D. Bedford (whose illustrations are still in copyright in the EU). The novel was first abridged by May Byron in 1915, with Barrie's permission, and published under the title Peter Pan and Wendy, the first time this form was used. This version was later illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1921. The novel is now usually published under that title or simply Peter Pan. The script of the play, which Barrie had continued to revise since its first performance, was published in 1928. In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London.
- The novel's two title characters are Peter Pan and Wendy Darling. Wendy Darling is the oldest of three children from a middle-class English family. She and her two younger brothers, John and Michael, first become aware of Peter Pan in their dreams. Peter Pan is the only boy in the world who has the ability to stay young forever. He can fly and he lives on the island of Neverland. Wendy begins to suspect that Peter Pan sometimes enters the bedroom that she shares with John and Michael while she is asleep. This proves to be true. When Peter Pan accidentally wakes Wendy up one evening, he tells her that he comes to her house to hear the stories that her mother tells her and her brothers. Peter then tells those stories to the six other boys, known as the Lost Boys, who live with him in Neverland. When Wendy says that she knows lots of stories, Peter asks her to come back to Neverland with him. Wendy agrees, on the condition that John and Michael can go with her. She then acts as mother to all the boys on the island. Neverland is also home to fairies, mermaids, a Native American tribe and a band of pirates led by the fearsome Captain Hook. In spite of its dangers, Wendy and her brothers live happily in Neverland for a long time. They then become worried that their parents may have forgotten about them and want to return home. Some readers are likely to be offended by the manner in which Native Americans are depicted in Peter and Wendy. The Native American characters are said to belong to a tribe called the Piccaninny tribe. They are referred to as "Redskins" throughout the novel and are occasionally called "savages". There have been numerous adaptations of Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up to other media. These adaptations include comic books and graphic novels, stage musicals, traditional British pantomimes, video games and radio dramas. Other authors have written novels which serve as sequels and prequels to Peter and Wendy, both authorized and unauthorized. The first film adaptation of the Peter Pan story, an American silent movie, was released in 1924. Several live-action and animated film and television adaptations of the story have been produced since then, in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia and Japan. The best-known movie adaptations of the story are the 1953 Walt Disney animated film Peter Pan, Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook (starring Robin Williams as an adult Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook), the 2003 American-British-Australian film Peter Pan (starring Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan and Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook) and the 2015 prequel Pan (starring Levi Miller as Peter, Garrett Hedlund as Hook and Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard the pirate).
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