"Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie (1911)

One of the most charming novels ever written with young people in mind, the account of how Wendy and her brothers meet up with a little boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan, who teaches them how to fly so that they can escape with him and his fairy companion Tinker Bell to Neverland, the land of mermaids and fairies and the Never bird, where they join the Lost Boys and have to deal with redskins and wolves and the pirates of the formidable Captain Hook as well as a terrible crocodile with a ticking clock inside it.

They somehow survive those adventures so that Wendy when she has grown up can recount them to her own little daughter Jane, who can continue the saga as Peter never grows old and there are still fairies in Neverland because “when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born”.

Not the kind of book that you can ever forget, no matter how young or old you happen to be or become.

(47,000 words)

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