I have been looking for old Peter Pan books from second hand books stores and online and everything, and I’ve come to discover there are lots of books! I want to know which is the origional by the origional author and is the one who wrote the Peter Pan story about Neverland with Wendy.
I believe there is one called Peter Pan and then some place name… And then there is Peter and Wendy, and then there is Peter PAN and Wendy, and All this stuff! Can someone please clear it up for me!!! THANKS!
All right, well, there is only one author, who wrote the original Peter Pan story, and that is James Barrie. Everything that you see that is not written by him is a sequel.
Barrie had the story of Peter in his mind for a long time. He wrote a book called "The Little White Bird" a long time before he wrote Peter Pan, but it already has Peter in it, as a minor character.
After Peter Pan became that famous, the chapters from this book where published separately, as "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", because many people wanted to read Peters very first appearances.
Some years after "The Little White Bird", Barrie finally started writing on Peters story, but he first wrote it as a stage play. He called this play, "Peter Pan or The Boy who wouldn’t grow up".
After the play was celebrated, he republished it as a novel, called "Peter and Wendy".
This novel today has been reprinted many times, and some publishers decided to call it "Peter Pan" instead of "Peter and Wendy".
Lastly, there is "Peter Pan and the Starcatchers" and "Peter Pan in Scarlet", both NOT written by Barrie, but by other authors who received the right to write about these characters. The first is a prequel to Peter Pan, the last a sequel to "Peter and Wendy".
Well, that should be all of them. Hope I helped!
