Hello Book Lovers!!!
I've just finished reading Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie for my third read of the AprilAThon which covered the challenge of 'read a book with a beautiful cover'. Now I've left a collection of photos above for you to look at because as you can see this book doesn't just have a beautiful cover but is truly stunning throughout! I'd highly recommend picking up this edition if you ever wanted to read this story!
If somehow you are unaware of what Peter Pan is about, it is about the Darling children that live in London with their parents and their dog that is also their nurse (called Nana). One night while sleeping, a boy flies through the window of the nursery where they are sleeping trying to catch his shadow that has detached itself from him.When the boy begins to cry, this wakes Wendy (the oldest of the three Darling children) and she soon finds out that this boy is Peter Pan that the children have been creating stories based around for years! She begins to sew Peter's shadow back onto him and eventually the two other Darling children, John and Michael wake up as well.
Peter asks them to come with him to Neverland, a magical place full of pixies and fairies and mermaids and pirates! The Darling children ask how they would get to such a magical place and Peter replies with 'well we fly of course!' Now this clearly isn't something Wendy, John and Michael have learnt to do so after Peter explains to them that they need to think of a happy thought, and get a little extra help from Tinkerbell with her pixie dust, they begin to fly!
Once in Neverland the Darling children meet the Lost Boys and Wendy becomes their 'mother'. Together they all go on many adventures including facing the menacing Captain Hook!
This is a truly magical and captivating story and one that has been told for many years and will continue to be told for many more. I love the story of Peter Pan and Neverland has always been a place I would love to visit myself if that was possible.
The characters are so addictive and you can't help but love them all, even Captain Hook and his pirates, (however I've never been much of a Wendy fan, I find her pretty annoying!). Overall though the characters are fantastically described and it is so magical being transported into their imaginations and thoughts and go on all of these adventures with them.
The way Peter Pan is written is of course an older style as it was first published in 1911 (I think!) so naturally some of the language used we wouldn't see in today's more modern works. This didn't halter my enjoyment to the story at all however and I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Neverland with all of the incredibly written characters.
As you can see from the above images, this edition of the story has also been beautifully captured by the incredible MiniLima (a company that also worked on the visuals for the very well known Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling). Through drawn images to newspaper articles, maps and interactive pop up pages, MiniLima have done an amazing job in helping bring to life this magical story even more.
Overall I'd highly recommend picking up this edition of the story as it brings a whole new level of magic to the characters, Neverland and your overall enjoyment to the story itself.
Rating /5
5
Happy Reading!!!
xHannahx
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