Peter Pan (Sight & Sound): Ronald Kidd, Walt Disney Company, John Kurtz
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5– A portion of the royalties from this book are being donated to a British charity, but that’s not a strong enough reason to buy it. Four movable pictures (the sort that rotate to dissolve from one scene to another), plus a scattering of tiny, hard-to-find flaps, accompany an incoherently abridged text. The slightly antique-looking art is crudely executed; small figures with distorted or indistinct features change relative sizes from spread to spread, and are placed, in most scenes, with no discernible logic. Stick with the original, available in several handsome editions, or if you must have an abridgment, go for the book/cassette package illustrated by Diane Goode, read by Lynn Redgrave, and adapted by Josette Frank (Random, 1987).
- John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review
A lovely new edition of the famous story - written after the play (which is now appearing on Broadway). The story is carried beyond the action of the play as Mrs. Darling is disposed of in a sentence, Wendy grows up, marries and has a daughter who takes care of Peter’s spring house cleaning now that Wendy has become caught up in the tragic earth-bound disenchantment of adulthood. And Wendy’s daughter, too, grows up and has a daughter who visits Peter in Neverland - “and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless”. (Kirkus Reviews)
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