Illustrated Peter Pan: Peter Pan

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I had a lot of fun imagining these scenes and ended up feeling inspired to add an extra option of Peter and Tink gazing out over Neverland from a tree, which, quite happily, Egmont decided to go for as a night-time scene. The production opened on 27 December 1904 to huge success, breaking all previous theatrical records. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

A further 23 black-and-white ink drawings are integrated throughout the text, and include a beautiful, detailed map of Peter Pan’s enchanted world. Lovely early copy, with a few small repaired tears on rear cover cloth, and light wear to the binding besides. Illustrated with Fifty tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour plates and additional monochrome motifs and decorations by Arthur Rackham. Let your imagination take flight as you journey with Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, and the Darling children to the magical island of Neverland in this beautiful new unabridged gift edition of J.Artist Debra McFarlane’s 12 exquisite watercolours illustrate the edition, alongside 23 integrated black-and-white ink drawings including a detailed map of Neverland. I share your opinion that the original Peter Pan may not be an enjoyable read aloud for some children who are younger than ten. When building a children's library at home, one can't fill it up only with luxurious large hardcovers with page-to-page illustrations. It first appeared in the form of a play, in 1904, and was later transformed into a novel ­– written in 1911.

Barrie followed up with Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), the text of which was based not on the play but rather on revised extractions from his story collection The Little White Bird (1902). So, the new edition of Peter Pan that I illustrated for Egmont Publishing's new classics range is now officially out!For parents with young children, do check out also his remarkable Favourite Rhymes From Mother Goose. Since its first publication in 1911, generations of young readers have delighted in Peter Pan’s ‘awfully big adventure’. I was so looking forward to reading your recommended version of Peter Pan and tonight was the night! Adults and older children can read it to themselves whilst younger children can also share the experience by reading this to them at bedtime and showing them the pictures.

I am finding it really magical, reading one of my old favourites as a child to my child who also loves the story. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

She often works in etching and aquatint (inked-up on the plate in one sitting and printed in one impression) but her current medium is watercolour. This large-format Folio edition takes its inspiration from the most beautiful children’s books of the Edwardian era. Based on stories that the author told his close friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies’s sons, the cheeky and free-spirited boy destined for eternal youth is an homage to the brothers, who would later become Barrie’s wards following their parents’ death in close succession. As above, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, unworn or unused, with tags, and in its original packaging.