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    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
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    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

    By J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie and Arthur Rackham

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    Release dateJan 1, 1970

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    • 4/5
      1926 American edition. Love, love, love these illustrations!
    • 3/5
       W...T...H? Parts of it made very interesting set-ups for the canon of Peter Pan, but parts of it were definitely not appropriate for children; the last chapter deals greatly with children dying (falling out of their prams, being left to starve/freeze in the gardens, etc.) and Peter burying their dead bodies. It also mentions the "bad fairies" slaughtering children that get discovered in the gardens after closing time. This, to me, is the reason that you can't just /trust/ that a children's book is appropriate for its intended audience (this and the original Little Mermaid).
    • 4/5
      This was written after Peter Pan but is a prequel. There is lots of information and anecdotes about Kensington Gardens in London as well as the story of Peter Pan and how he came to be the boy who never grew up. There is a story about how prospective parents ask the birds for a child and that is why children think they can fly as they were born as baby birds.Not all of the stories feature Peter Pan, the first half is a series of short tales about the different sights in the gardens and some of the children who have visited. It also talks about Barrie’s visits with the children to the gardens and I am ashamed to admit that while I have been living by London for nearly 10 years I still haven’t been to the gardens. I really must go and see if the monuments and sights have changed much since Barrie’s time.This was beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham with over 50 full colour illustrations plus many pen drawings and this was how I found the book even existed. It was funny, sweet and makes a lovely collection to anyone’s library.
    • 4/5
      I actually wasn't sure if I would like this story or not. But, I was pleasantly surprised. I did enjoy it much more than I thought I would. This is the story of how Peter Pan came to be.Peter left his mother, when he was a baby, to be a bird. That didn't work to well for him. So, the fairies decided to take him. They taught him to play like other children. Although they didn't teach him right, he still enjoyed himself. One day, they told Peter that they would give him one big wish. But, he took two small wishes instead. One was to go back to his mother. After he saw her, he returned to the fairies to spend some more time with them before he went back to his mother. But, when he was ready to go back, the window he flew out of was barred. That was when Peter made up his mind to live with the fairies.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. This is truly a classic book that everyone should read twice in their life, once as a child and once as an adult.

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    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

    Project Gutenberg's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie

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    Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

    Author: J. M. Barrie

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

    Release Date: November 11, 2008 [EBook #26999]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS ***

    Produced by Al Haines (This file was produced from images

    generously made available by The Internet Archive)

    He was quite angry when these two ran away the moment they saw him.

    PETER PAN

    IN

    KENSINGTON

    GARDENS

    FROM

    THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

    BY

    J. M. BARRIE

    A NEW EDITION

    ILLUSTRATED BY

    ARTHUR RACKHAM

    LONDON

    HODDER & STOUGHTON

    1906

    TO SYLVIA AND ARTHUR LLEWELYN DAVIES

    AND THEIR BOYS (MY BOYS)

    CONTENTS

    CHAPTER I

    THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS

    CHAPTER II

    PETER PAN

    CHAPTER III

    THE THRUSH'S NEST

    CHAPTER IV

    LOCK-OUT TIME

    CHAPTER V

    THE LITTLE HOUSE

    CHAPTER VI

    PETER'S GOAT

    Illustration:

    The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives

    (missing from book)

    DAVID

    COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

    1. He was quite angry when these two ran away the moment they saw him ... Frontispiece

    2. The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives (missing from book)

    3. The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside

    4. In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing

    5. The Hump, which is the part of the Broad Walk where all the big races are run

    6. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf (missing from book)

    7. The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night there are also drowned stars in it

    8. The island on which all the birds are born that become baby boys and girls (missing from book)

    9. Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens

    10. Away he flew, right over the houses to the Gardens

    11. The fairies have their tiffs with the birds

    12. When he heard Peter's voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip

    13. A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them

    14. Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw (missing from book)

    15. Peter screamed out, 'Do it again!' and with great good-nature they did it several times

    16. A hundred flew off with the string, and Peter clung to the tail

    17. After this the birds said that they would help him no more in his mad enterprise

    18. 'Preposterous!' cried Solomon in a rage

    19. For years he had been quietly filling his stocking

    20. When you meet grown-up people in the Gardens who puff and blow as if they thought themselves bigger than they are

    21. He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens

    22. There now arose a mighty storm, and he was tossed this way and that (missing from book)

    23. Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk

    24. When they think you are not looking they skip along pretty lively (missing from book)

    25. But if you look, and they fear there is no time to hide, they stand quite still pretending to be flowers (missing from book)

    26. The fairies are exquisite dancers

    27. These tricky fairies sometimes slyly change the board on a ball night

    28. Linkmen running in front carrying winter cherries

    29. When her Majesty wants to know the time

    30. The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are well behaved

    31. Butter is got from the roots of old trees (missing from book)

    32. Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit

    33. Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra

    34. They all tickled him on the shoulder (missing from book)

    35. One day they were overheard by a fairy

    36. The little people weave their summer curtains from skeleton leaves

    37. An afternoon when the Gardens were white with snow

    38. She ran to St. Govor's Well and hid

    39. An elderberry hobbled across the walk, and stood chatting with some young quinces

    40. A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, 'Hoity-toity, what is this?'

    41. They warned her

    42. Queen Mab, who rules in the Gardens

    43. Shook his bald head and murmured, 'Cold, quite cold'

    44. Fairies never say, 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'

    45. Looking very undancey indeed

    The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside

    46. 'My Lord Duke,' said the physician elatedly, 'I have the honour to inform your excellency that your grace is in love'

    47. Building the house for Maimie

    48. If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out (missing from book)

    49. They will certainly mischief you (missing from book)

    50. I think that quite the most touching sight in the Gardens is the two tombstones of Walter Stephen Matthews and Phoebe Phelps

    ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

    David

    Kensington Gardens

    Headpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'

    Porthos

    One of the Paths that have Made Themselves

    Tailpiece to 'The Grand Tour of the Gardens'

    Headpiece to 'Peter Pan'

    The birds on the island never got used to him. His oddities tickled them every day

    Tailpiece to 'Peter Pan'

    Headpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'

    Tailpiece to 'The Thrush's Nest'

    Headpiece to 'Lock-out Time'

    They are so cunning

    A fairy ring

    Tailpiece to 'Lock-out Time'

    Headpiece to 'The Little House'

    There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk

    She escorted them up the Baby Walk and back again

    Tailpiece to 'The Little House'

    Headpiece to 'Peter's Goat'

    Tailpiece to 'Peter's Goat'

    Kensington Gardens

    In the Broad Walk you meet all the people worth knowing

    I

    THE GRAND TOUR OF THE GARDENS

    You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens. They are in London, where the King lives, and I used to take David there nearly every day unless he was looking decidedly flushed. No child has ever been in the whole of the Gardens, because it is so soon time to turn back. The reason it is soon time to turn back is that, if you are as small as David, you sleep from twelve to one. If your mother was not so sure that you sleep from twelve to one, you could most likely see the whole of them.

    The Gardens are bounded on one side by a never-ending line of omnibuses, over which your nurse has such authority that if she holds up her finger to any one of them it stops immediately. She then crosses with you in safety to the other side. There are more gates to the Gardens than one gate, but that is the one you go in at, and before you go in you speak to the lady with the balloons, who sits just outside. This is as near to being inside as she may venture, because, if she were to let go her hold of the railings for one moment,

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