The Little White Bird (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan appears for the first time in this 1902 work. After dark, magical inhabitants emerge behind the locked gates of London’s famous gardens. Other characters in the intertwining storyline include Peter’s four-year-old friend Maimie, the London bachelor Captain W., young David and his governess, and Barrie’s own St. Bernard, Porthos.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411444126

J. M. Barrie

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.