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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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    PublisherArchive Classics
    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: October 24, 2008 [EBook #26998]

    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)

    The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives.

    PETER PAN

    IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

    BY

    J. M. BARRIE

    (From 'The Little White Bird')

    WITH DRAWINGS BY

    ARTHUR RACKHAM

    NEW YORK

    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

    1910

    Copyright, 1902, 1906,

    BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

    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

    ILLUSTRATIONS

    1. 'The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives' . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

    2. 'The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside'

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

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

    5. 'Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw'

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

    7. 'For years he had been quietly filling his stocking'

    8. 'Fairies are all more or less in hiding until dusk'

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

    10. 'When her Majesty wants to know the time'

    11. 'Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra'

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

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

    14. 'Fairies never say, We feel happy; what they say is, "We feel dancey."'

    15. 'Looking very undancey indeed'

    16. 'Building the house for Maimie'

    PETER PAN

    IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

    Map of Peter Pan's Kensington Gardens

    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, the balloons would lift her up, and she would be flown away. She sits very squat, for the balloons are always tugging at her, and the strain has given her quite a red face. Once she was a new one, because the old one had let go, and David was very sorry for the old one, but as she did let go, he wished he had been there to see.

    The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside.

    The Gardens are a tremendous big place, with millions and hundreds of trees; and first you come to the Figs, but you scorn to loiter there, for the Figs is the resort of superior little persons, who are forbidden to mix with the commonalty, and is so named, according to legend, because they dress in full fig. These dainty ones are themselves contemptuously called Figs by David and other heroes, and you have a key to the manners and customs of this dandiacal section of the Gardens when I tell you that cricket is called crickets here. Occasionally a rebel Fig climbs over the fence into the world, and such a one was Miss Mabel Grey, of whom I shall tell you when we come to Miss Mabel Grey's gate. She was the only really celebrated Fig.

    We are now in the Broad Walk, and it is as much bigger than the other walks as your father is bigger than you. David wondered if it began little, and grew and grew, until it was quite grown up, and whether the other walks are its babies, and he drew a picture, which diverted him very much, of the Broad Walk giving a tiny walk an airing in a perambulator. In the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing, and there is usually a grown-up with them to prevent them going on the damp grass, and to make them stand disgraced at the corner of a seat if they have been mad-dog or Mary-Annish. To be Mary-Annish is to behave like a girl, whimpering because nurse won't carry you, or simpering with your thumb in your mouth, and it is a hateful quality; but to be mad-dog is to kick out at everything, and there is some satisfaction in that.

    If I were to point out all the notable places as we pass up the Broad Walk, it would be time to turn back before we reach them, and I simply wave my stick at Cecco Hewlett's Tree, that memorable spot where a boy called Cecco lost his penny, and, looking for it, found twopence. There has been a good deal of excavation going on there ever since. Farther up the walk is the little wooden house in which Marmaduke Perry hid. There is no more awful story of the Gardens than this of Marmaduke Perry, who had been Mary-Annish three days in succession, and was sentenced to appear in the Broad Walk dressed in his sister's clothes. He hid in the little wooden house, and refused to emerge until they brought him knickerbockers with pockets.

    You now try to go to the Round Pond, but nurses hate it, because they are not really manly, and they make you look the other way, at the Big Penny and the Baby's Palace. She was the most celebrated baby of the Gardens, and lived in the palace all alone, with ever so many dolls, so people rang the bell, and up she got out of her bed, though

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