Essays on Peter Pan

Childhood is not only a crucial time for learning and developing, but it’s also a magical time where everything seems possible and that is the feeling I got as a child when watching Disney movies. Today, as an adult, I still find myself tearing up…

With their new theater currently under construction, Berry College Theater Company has undertaken an outdoor production of Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher. Fancifully unravelling the life of Peter Pan before he became the children’s literature figure we know so well, the play explores the…

The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up Trickster Tales, Fables, and Fairy Tales The story of Peter Pan was conceived by J.M. Barrie, a Scottish novelist and playwright, and was first used as a character in his adult novel The Little White Bird, penned in 1902….

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1st Baronet, Order of Merit) was a Scottish author of the Victorian/Edwardian eras. Born in 1860 and living 77 years, he is still famous and influential today. Some of his works revolutionized children’s literature and are still popular. Probably the second…