Peter Pan

A romantic fairy tale Peter Pan is a favourite story of many generations of children all over the world. The main character is a boy who never grows  up, can fly, lives in Neverland and fairies are his friends. He gives a flying ability to three children from London - Wendy, John and Michael Darling and takes them to a mysterious land where they have exciting and sometimes rather scary adventures.

James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.