«Todos los niños, menos uno, crecen». Así comienza la historia de ese jovencito que se resiste con vehemencia a convertirse en adulto, ese atribulado y domesticado engranaje necesario para el sistema social. El País de Nunca Jamás es su hogar, su resistencia; allí es un pequeño caballero, valeroso guerrero espadachín. Alicia lo saluda desde el País de las Maravillas, seguro. Pinocho, desde «la eternidad pueril de la madera encantada», como dice Juan Villoro, tal vez lo entiende; Dorothy, desde la Tierra de Oz, lo admira, y hasta quizá sienta envidia, pues, a diferencia de Peter, algún día todos ellos crecerán. Pero solo ese niño conoce (y valora) el secreto de la infancia eterna.

A lot darker than the Disneyfied version, Neverland is half nightmare and Pan much more of a capricious and immoral god of his realm. The appeals to courage being couched in terms of a british spirit have also been lost to time in modern adaptations. While the indians were actually part of the Disney movie, they've been quietly excised since. ( )

This is the first book that has made me cry. I never knew it was so sad, and so violent! They actually kill people and there's a lot of blood. The should seriously consider making a grown-up movie about him. And I liked the introduction, never thought of Hook and Peter Pan as the battle between youth and maturity. That really was something that got me thinking. But what really surprising is how sad it really is, and how depressed Peter really is but won't acknowledge. ( )

Wendy, Michael, and John are sleeping when the window of their nursery blows open and lets in a boy, Peter Pan, and his fairy, Tinker Bell. But Peter soon entices the three children from their beds and out through the window to Neverland. There, they encounter mermaids, fairies, the Lost Boys, and the Indian princess Tiger Lily and her tribe; and do battle with a villainous gang of pirates and their leader, the sinister Captain Hook, in a magical adventure which has enchanted generations of children and adults.

I was surprised by how much adult nostalgia had to do with this novel. The adventures are necessarily the things of childlike imagining and the juxtaposition of inevitable maturing vs the desire to remain innocent. Peter is the ultimate innocent - blithely jumping from one thing to another, never remembering, never really caring about anyone, only in life for the adventure to be had. It is an exciting place to be, but also one that is stagnant. ( )