Peter Pan: The Original Tale of Neverland

''Intensely moving as well as enchanting in its evocation of childhood, the heartlessness of youth and parental grief as children grow older.'' -- Daily Telegraph J. M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892. ''Peter Pan,'' first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story of Peter Pan first appeared in book form (titled Peter and Wendy, and later Peter Pan and Wendy) in 1911. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.