Peter Pan Complete Text

By James Matthew Barrie

Meet Peter Pan, the magical boy who refuses to grow up. One night, while looking for his shadow, Peter and Tinker Bell fly into the home of the Darling family. In no time, Peter has the Darling children soaring through the air, out the window, and off to Neverland, an island where mermaids swim, the lost boys roam, and the evil pirate, Captain Hook, plots his revenge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jun 8, 2010
• ISBN: 9780062023414

James Matthew Barrie

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish playwright and novelist best remembered for creating the character Peter Pan. The mischievous boy first appeared in Barrie's novel The Little White Bird in 1902 and then later in Barrie's most famous work, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered on stage in 1904 and was later adapted into a novel in 1911. An imaginative tale about a boy who can fly and never ages, the story of Peter Pan continues to delight generations around the world and has become one of the most beloved children's stories of all time. Peter's magical adventures with Tinker Bell, the Darling children, and Captain Hook have been adapted into a variety of films, television shows, and musicals.

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CHAPTER 1

Peter Breaks Through

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever! This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling’s guesses.

Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling’s bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.

Now don’t interrupt, he would beg of her.

I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven,—who is that moving?—eight nine seven, dot and carry seven—don’t speak, my own—and the pound you lent to that man who came to the door—quiet, child—dot and carry child—there, you’ve done it!—did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?

Of course we can, George, she cried. But she was prejudiced in Wendy’s favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.

Remember mumps, he warned her almost threateningly, and off he went again. Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings—don’t speak—measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes two fifteen six—don’t waggle your finger—whooping-cough, say fifteen shillings—and so on it went, and it added up differently each time, but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.

There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.

Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking round your throat. She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On John’s footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom’s school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling’s friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael’s pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John’s hair.

No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.

He had his position in the city to consider.

Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him. I know she admires you tremendously, George, Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid’s cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps! And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it. There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.

Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children’s minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind, and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.

I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on, and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents. But on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other’s nose, and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and tablecloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.

Occasionally in her travels through her children’s minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael’s minds, while Wendy’s began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.

Yes, he is rather cocky, Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.

But who is he, my pet?

He is Peter Pan, you know, mother.

At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

Besides, she said to Wendy, he would be grown up by this time.

Oh no, he is n’t grown up, Wendy assured her confidently, and he is just my size. She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she did n’t know how she knew it, she just knew it.

Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh. Mark my words, he said, it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over.

But it would not blow over, and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:

I do believe it is that Peter again!

Whatever do you mean, Wendy?

It’s so naughty of him not to wipe, Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.

She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter

Reviews for Peter Pan Complete Text

[bettesbooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was so fun to read, my introduction to Peter Pan was in 1955 when Mary Martin did the TV presentation. This follows what I remember of the TV performance as I remember it. It brought back so many nice memories.

[laurochka-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A children's classic I couldn't believe I'd never read! This Peter is a much darker and more sinister version than my perceptions from popular culture but this gives the original story a different dimension. I very much enjoyed it in a melancholy kind of way.

[bensdad00 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Somethingh about Victorian novelists - they come up with great idea but execute them terribly - Peter Pan and Dracula are two iconic figures that are virtually unreadable in the original

[shanaqui_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I can't believe I've never actually read Peter Pan until now. I'd seen the Disney version, but this is both more charming and more sinister than that. There are lots of sweet little details, like mothers tidying up their children's thoughts, and the kiss on the corner of Mrs Darling's mouth.

But Peter is a monstrous sort of figure when you get past the romance of Neverland. He's a wild boy, selfish and cocky. Instead of being a kind of example of innocent childhood, he almost brings to mind the boys from Lord of the Flies. Near the end, it says that he nearly stabs Wendy's baby! And he steals other children.

Of course, the moral of the story is that children need mothers. It's just charming enough to get away with the moralising.

[elizajane_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was a tough one to read aloud. I read the book, to myself, several years ago but didn't really remember it all. If I had, I don't think I would have chosen to read it aloud. The first few chapters were rather boring and very old-fashioned. Once Peter entered the picture, the story picked up and ds became interested. But then once again, the narrative would seem to just go on and on about nothing until something happened in the plot every once and a while. I found the writing very didactic, conceited and smug and just downright difficult to read out loud. I could just imagine the author chuckling at how witty he thought himself. I have to say the 7yo enjoyed this much more than I. I asked him twice (once near the beginning and once at the mid-point) if he'd like me to stop reading this book and he said no. So he, at least, got something out of it. I have always enjoyed reading the classics to my children but have to say this is one that has not stood the test of time very well.

[drewandlori · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I re-read this recently, and it was actually much better than I'd remembered from my childhood.

[tess_schoolmarm · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

About 50 years ago I saw the Broadway show starring Sandy Duncan as Peter Pan. It was much better than the book! 176 pages 3 stars

[jjjackson-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Peter Pan As a boy I always wished to be Peter Pan. I never wanted to grow up to be an adult. I wanted to remain a child having not a care in the world. As time evolved I grew up and before I knew it I was not a child. Troubles of the world concerned me. As a child I had many memories of pretending to be Peter Pan. I use to watch all the Peter Pan movies and read all the children books. I've read Peter Pan many times. This is easily one of my favorite books and its truly for all ages. It not only has an outstanding story but brings back child hood memories and brings a special feeling to all of its readers. There are very few books that have caught my attention like this book. I would highly recommend this wonderful book to all and everyone.

[caseybp · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I always find something new in this story.

[bookconcierge · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I really did not enjoy this book. It’s really very dark; conditions are bad in Neverland – frequently no food, everyone sleeping in one bed, their clothes in tatters. And they are subject to terror – pirates and redskins, not to mention mermaids and the beasts of the forest. All that being said, I was bored.I never read it as a child, and I am certain that I would not have enjoyed having it read to me as a child. (Although I did enjoy watching the TV special airing of the play starring Mary Martin.) Maybe the problem is that I, like Wendy at the end, have grown up.

[sadiesforsythe · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Ok, I realise Peter Pan was written in the early 1900s, a time not known as a paragon of gender equality. I also realise that a certain amount of leeway has to be allowed to literature as a product of its time. Even with these concessions, however, I still have to say Peter Pan is probably one of the most sexist books I have ever read. Seriously, every single man in the book is indistinguishable from a child. The adults males whinge like children and the boys have strange adult-like moments, despite their apparent youth. Giving all of them childlike feel. I'm not even entirely sure that the adults of Neverland weren't just children pretending to be grownups. Females only seem to have one role and it is a muddled mix of mother/wife. They are also apparently entirely replaceable. One doesn't need their mother/wife, just a mother/wife...who of course has no joy in life beyond caring for the boy/men in their lives.

The introduction to this version mentioned that when Barrie wrote the original play he wasn't sure what audience it was intended for, adult or child. I can see that. Certainly the Disney version is firmly geared toward children. The book? I'm not so sure. Being the collective imaginings of sleeping children there is no sense of morality in Neverland. The lost boys are a murderous lot, as are the pirates and the red skins. They all hunt each-other in a circular nature that rarely branches out from the established prejudices of their ilk. The body count is surprisingly high. The fairies are capable of only a single emotion at a time and it rarely seems to be unadulterated joy. Tinker Bell spends most of the book in a jealous huff because Wendy has usurped her place as mother/wife and another group of them comes traipsing home after a midnight orgy at one point.

I liked the narrative style. The woodcut-style pictures in this version were a nice addition (and honestly the only reason I didn't visualise all of the boys as older than they were supposed to be and all of the pirates and red skins as younger than intended). I'm thrilled to have read it, as it's a classic, but I don't think I'll be reading it to my children anytime soon.

[katieloucks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A little darker than I was expecting - Peter and the boys kill and they don't think about it. Read it first before deciding to read it to your child.

[melopher_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I don't typically enjoy fantasy literature, which may explain why I didn't love Peter Pan. The story is a familiar one, because of all the attention it has received on the stage and in film, but there is another element added in reading the book. It is much darker and more depressing, and left me feeling dissatisfied. It seemed to me that this stemmed more from the author's internal issues than it did from the author's creative device. The writing style is interesting, though occasionally confusing, as it seems as if you are eavesdropping on a storyteller weaving a tale to a small, young audience. Reading this was an interesting experience, one that I will probably not repeat or supply for my children. We'll stick to the movies, as they provide the story without the darkness.

[jami_leigh · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Plot: 3 stars
Characters: 3 stars
Style: 3 stars
Pace: 3 stars

Had a review, logging out by mistake ate it. Better than The Little White Bird only because the plot didn't meander quite as far at random, but not what I'd thought it would be. Disney definitely sanitized this, but instead of being shocked, all I could see was how weak Wendy constantly was. She could have been a puppet, for all the difference it made, being nothing more than a "mother" Mary figure. Still, it served the purpose it needed to for the story, so... there's that, at least.

[melzyrose90-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

After having picked up Peter Pan from this month's free selection of Audible Originals, I decided to give it a try because lately, I have been enjoying full-cast audio dramas (I find them soothing to listen to).I had mixed feelings about the results, but I was not entirely disappointed.On the positive side, I thoroughly enjoyed the full-cast production and sound effects, which effectively brought this presentation to life.However, aside from the narration, I found this tale utterly dull; I had to rewind several times as I found my attention drifting away from the story. If I am honest, if it were not for the dramatized performance, I would have given up on the story early in the first part.Overall, considering this was a free title, I guess that this performance of Peter Pan was okay. I would probably give other audible Originals a try in the future.

[tess_w · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

About 50 years ago I saw the Broadway show starring Sandy Duncan as Peter Pan. It was much better than the book! 176 pages 3 stars

[D J · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Listened to the audio book and couldn't finish it. I know it's a classic but I think most of us are used to some sanitized "Disney" versions of the story which are probably more suitable for young children and most adults too. Casual attitude about killing and sex (Peter Pan thinning the herd of boys if they grow too big? Fairies having an orgy?), swearing, etc make this story repulsive and probably inappropriate for most.

[artemisa-191823 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

As I read the book, a friend asked what we thought about the main character in our books. I couldn't decide if i liked Peter or not, because I really wanted to like him, and enjoy the story, but the narrator kept insisting the Peter was arrogant and cocky and selfish and all that stuff that children are.

And I wasn't understanding why I couldn't finish the book. It's a simple fairy tale. Then decided that I wasn't stopping until I finished it (I had about 50 pages until the end).
It was hard. I wanted to get over with it, but the story wasn't going anywhere. Why? Because that nosy narrator kept interrupting and making considerations about children and their mother, instead of telling the story.

I believe the play has to be better than the novel.
And I like the films better than this book.

Thanks to all the authors with neutral narrators...

[smashbasile · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is actually my first read-through of this classic! I had low expectations because lots of the classics don't live up to the hype from contemporary movies, etc. Thankfully, I enjoyed it quite a bit. The story was easy to follow and I enjoyed the adventure.

[griffin_reads · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Such a beautiful book...after growing up with more child-friendly Peter Pan adaptations, it was refreshing to read this novel. I loved the cruelness/childlike nature of Peter himself, as well as the interactions between him, the pirates, and the lost boys. It has its rightful place as being a classic, and is an excellent and quick read.

[mykl8s · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Really, it's about Wendy growing up.

[christina05 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A very good book

[beammey · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I love this edition of the story. The illustrations added so much to it and kept me so intrigued with what was happening. Minalima did a GREAT job and I can't wait to see what book they come out with next. That said, this is a children's classic and if you're looking for the Disney version of the story this is not it, though they didn't stray too, too far from the original. I would recommend this story to anyone. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

[Chanel · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The truth is that I was surprised and did not expect the real version. For my taste, such a childish version that we had in mind about Peter Pan... Forgive me, but I have seen too much violence for it to be dedicated to children. I know it was a different time when it was written, but I do not like that violence. (Translated from Spanish)

[benkaboo-51322 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Summary: Short punchy adventure story for kids and adults who want to remember what it was like to be a kid.

Things I liked:

* Perspective: I really loved the way he was able to really nail the way some kids look at the world (or at least it reminded me of how I used to see the world when I was a kid).

* The narrators voice. The charming English professor style reminded me of books like Narnia and The Once and Future King.

* The dark undertones: I definitely felt the author trying to share a few things outside of a kids adventure story, it made me glad to be reading a book versus watching a movie.


Things I didn't like:

* The perspective changed quite a bit quite quickly (made it a little hard to follow sometimes).

* Some of the characters felt a little boxed up. You got given a character portrait versus the opportunity to find out about the character from their words and actions (made it a little bit more like a comic book or a fairy tale then a novel.

Highlight: The end with Wendy and her daughter. The cumulation of the novel made me sad and happy. I think sticking to the character of Pan versus taking the easy option of having everyone live happily ever after was bold and effective choice. I loved the bitter-sweet feeling it left me with. . I remember about two pages into the book I had a great tingly feeling that made me already glad I was reading a book versus watching a disney movie.

[JesusJaredML · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Peter Pan has always been a story that for no reason made me feel lazy, however I gave myself the chance to read it and it turned out it wasn't as bad as I thought and there were several moments that I liked a lot. (Translated from Spanish)

[nimalectora · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Peter Pan is a heartwarming and sincere story, to the point of being comedic. I really liked one factor that several booktubers had emphasized when talking about the book: its narrator. Barrie does a great job of telling the story from a close, protagonist, and insightful perspective.
Peter evokes the feeling he should: a brat who doesn't want to grow up and is somewhat capricious. Each character is so well crafted that you can't give it less than 5 stars? (Translated from Spanish)

[Recmakeup · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Beautiful story of Pan.
Another great Disney story, how many times I remember asking my parents to put on the movie when I was little.
This is not exactly the book I read, but for a mere opinion, it suffices. (Translated from Spanish)

[Ana Loras · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I think we all, in one way or another, know the story of Peter Pan, that boy who didn’t want to grow up.

Personally, I only knew the Disney version, and I was curious to get to know the Peter Pan conceived by his creator. Discovering the edition from “Alma Editorial, clásicos ilustrados” and a reading challenge finally made me decide to read it.

The book is entertaining, very original, with great doses of imagination, fantasy, and adventure… I enjoyed traveling to Neverland and meeting Peter Pan, Wendy, John, and Michael, Tinkerbell, the mermaids, the lost boys, the redskins, the pirates, and Captain Hook!!

But... I only liked it halfway. I think the main problem is that I didn’t empathize at all with Peter Pan, who differs greatly from the sweet character of the Disney version. I also don’t see it as entirely suitable for child audiences; there are several points that rub me the wrong way.

However, with its pros and cons, I enjoyed reading this classic. (Translated from Spanish)

[panicathemind · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It's been a long time since I watched the 2003 Peter Pan movie that I grew up with, and being a beloved classic, I decided to give the book a chance. I was quite surprised at how easily I recalled certain scenes through the pages; at times it felt like reliving the movie. This happened to me for most of the book, except for the ending.
Interestingly, I think I found the movie better. In the book, there are explanations and character development that are never given, and since it is such a short book, the adventures are few. There are scenes that are somewhat dark and make me think it isn't recommended for children. I liked the type of narration, but there are parts where it's confusing that it constantly goes back and forth in the story.
Aside from that, it’s an enjoyable read, but it may be one of the few times I would prefer a film adaptation over the original book. (Translated from Spanish)