Peter Pan

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  Is there a better children book than this one? I doubt it.
  There are no words to say how much I love this book.
  It's delicate and cruel at the same time, and even if you're a grown-up, once you've read it you can't help but believe that Peter Pan does exist, and Never-neverland as well...< ... (continue)

  Is there a better children book than this one? I doubt it.
  There are no words to say how much I love this book.
  It's delicate and cruel at the same time, and even if you're a grown-up, once you've read it you can't help but believe that Peter Pan does exist, and Never-neverland as well...
  Oh, how much I wanted to be Wendy when I was a little girl!

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  Miss Piggott said on Aug 12, 2007 | 1 feedback

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  "Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man."

  "I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things," he told her passionately. "I don't want to be a man. O Wendy's mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!"

  5/5

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  Giulia said on Oct 20, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  "Pan, who and what are thou?"
  "I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

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  rfranz said on Jul 9, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Peter Pan is one of those characters that simply gets stuck in your mind and heart, no matter how old you are. The novel is just so nice and so tender, but ironical at the same time, and I loved the way it was written. Of course it’s a children story, so I think I was a bit too old (unluckily) to fu ... (continue)

  Peter Pan is one of those characters that simply gets stuck in your mind and heart, no matter how old you are. The novel is just so nice and so tender, but ironical at the same time, and I loved the way it was written. Of course it’s a children story, so I think I was a bit too old (unluckily) to fully appreciate this book- I found it a tiny bit boring sometimes. I’m sure that if I had read it some years ago, I would have really liked it but at the same time I would not have caught the deeper meaning.

  Peter Pan from the book is a bit different from the boy we imagine (and we see in films and cartoons): he’s surely fascinating, but he’s also careless and reckless and sometimes quite annoying. Wendy is just lovely, and her feeling to be a mother deeply contrasts with her need to be a daughter and feel loved and taken care of by somebody.

  We are all Peter Pans and Wendies- we are tender, needy, scared. And I think that’s the reason why this novel has always been so successful: it is our unconscious reflection.

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  MoonyBen said on May 29, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Second book read on my iPod Touch! The way it is written is just lovely… Totally imaginative and so truthful to how a child sees the world. Sometimes, though, I found the thinking behind it a bit sexist. The only girl in the story is there to be the mother and has to do all the cooking and all the s ... (continue)

  Second book read on my iPod Touch! The way it is written is just lovely… Totally imaginative and so truthful to how a child sees the world. Sometimes, though, I found the thinking behind it a bit sexist. The only girl in the story is there to be the mother and has to do all the cooking and all the sewing etc. And the boys just go out and have fun and adventures… I also had a lot of troubles trying to understand the language in some parts, just like I did with Pride & Prejudice… I guess I'm not so used to read texts of the 19th century (or early 20th)… And I thought the end was beautifully sad.

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  Patricia said on Jun 10, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  “The boy who would not grow up”.
  As I hadn’t watched the famous Disney cartoon I decided to read the book.
  I have to say I’ve found the character quite wicked and negative.
  “The girls” are interested in him in a way he doesn’t understand. There is an obsession with motherhood…
  There is a big ... (continue)

  “The boy who would not grow up”.
  As I hadn’t watched the famous Disney cartoon I decided to read the book.
  I have to say I’ve found the character quite wicked and negative.
  “The girls” are interested in him in a way he doesn’t understand. There is an obsession with motherhood…
  There is a big gap between the cartoon and the book (not really for small children the unabridged version).
  I take the opportunity to highly recommend the movie: “Finding Neverland” with Johnny Depp and Katherine Winslet.

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  Barbara ABP said on Apr 2, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 192 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0140621415
• ISBN-13: 9780140621419
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pub date: Jan 25, 2007
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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