The Lost Boys are still living in their tree where he expects them to be, but they have a new leader, a boy named Ernest who Peter does not remember from his time before. He finds it both exactly the same and nothing like what he left. Peter Darling picks up the story of Peter Pan, returning to Neverland after ten years away. Peter Darling is rooted more deeply in the original Peter Pan so occasionally, I found my mind-visuals did not quite match what the story called for. Is this where I admit I have never read Peter Pan by J.M. Most of my knowledge of Peter Pan comes from the Disney cartoon and an old recorded stage production starring Mary Martin that we taped off tv. Peter Darling by Austin Chant is not really a re-telling or extension of the Peter Pan story so much as it is a re-framing of something familiar that once read, makes complete sense.
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