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Peter and Wendy

150 illustrations · 17 chapters

Chapter 1Peter breaks into the nursery

  1. The narrow Darling house in its London terrace at dusk, one warm window glowing high
  2. Mrs. Darling presses a hand to her heart as little Wendy runs to her with a flower
  3. Nana peers gravely into a pram in Kensington Gardens as a cross nursemaid glares
  4. A storybook map of a child's mind: a crowded Neverland island with zigzag roads
  5. Mrs. Darling, puzzled, studies a cocky scrawled Peter among her children's thoughts
  6. From the nursery sill, a taut tape hangs down the brick wall to the pavement below
  7. In Mrs. Darling's dream, a boy holds open a torn veil as three children peep at Neverland
  8. Wind throws the nursery window open; a barefoot boy drops in, led by a spark of light
  9. Mrs. Darling wakes with a cry by the nursery fire and recognises the boy as Peter Pan
  10. Peter Pan gnashes his pearly milk teeth at the grown-up woman by the nursery fire

Chapter 2The shadow and the fatal Friday

  1. Nana hurls herself across the nursery as the barefoot boy crouches on the sill
  2. Nana proudly holds the boy's torn-off shadow in her jaws as Mrs. Darling stares
  3. A week after the shadow, the night-nursery stands emptied of children, its beds tidy and untouched.
  4. Mrs. Darling calmly ties her husband's tie as Wendy, John and Michael watch
  5. Clutching his medicine, a teary father protests it isn't fair as his daughter looks up
  6. Michael gulps his medicine, eyes shut, as his father slides his own glass behind his hip
  7. In close-up, Nana, the Darlings' Newfoundland nurse, looks up at Mr. Darling
  8. Puffed up with false courage, Mr. Darling waves Nana away as the children weep behind
  9. Nana, tied to a post in the back-yard, watches Mr. Darling walk away in shame
  10. In the dim night-nursery, Michael hugs his mother and tells her he is glad of her
  11. Above the sleeping Darling house, the smallest star flares brighter than all the rest

Chapter 3Peter takes the children away

  1. The Darling house at No. 14 on a snowy night, one nursery window glowing under stars
  2. Under starlight, Peter Pan drops in through the nursery window, fairy dust on his hand
  3. Wendy stitches Peter's shadow to his foot as he clenches his teeth and refuses to cry
  4. Tink bursts furious from the drawer as Peter spreads his palms and Wendy shrinks back
  5. Close-up of Peter's narrowed brown eyes as he turns back to Wendy, hunger glinting
  6. The Darlings leap up at the dinner party as Nana, chain trailing, begs them to come home
  7. A boy's open palm releases golden fairy dust toward a child's bowed head in the nursery
  8. John and Wendy meet in mid-air in the night-nursery, laughing at their first flight
  9. From the snowy street, the Darlings and Nana watch three children circle in the window
  10. Peter Pan bursts into the starry night, with Wendy, John and Michael streaming after him
  11. The parents and their great black dog burst into the nursery a moment too late.

Chapter 4The flight to the Neverland and the scattering

  1. Four tiny children glide across a vast sea toward a faint island on the horizon
  2. Michael plummets in his sleep as Peter dives, fingers an inch from his nightshirt
  3. In the cold sky, Wendy tells John that none of them can stop or turn back
  4. From high above, golden sunset rays fan down onto the Neverland like pointing arrows
  5. Over the black island, the children huddle against a boy pounding the air with his fists
  6. Over the dark island, Peter proudly admits what he did to the pirate captain
  7. Long Tom's orange blast tears the night over the black island as echoes roll
  8. In the dark after the blast, John asks if Michael is shot and Michael answers solemnly
  9. Wendy tips John's top hat toward her face as a bright, sly fairy springs out of it
  10. Wendy, tiny in a vast black sky, follows Tinker Bell's golden glow toward her doom

Chapter 5The island comes alive; Wendy is shot

  1. The Neverland seen whole from high above at dusk, a compact island in a warm sea.
  2. At dusk, Captain Hook reclines in a chariot hauled by his crew, his iron hook raised
  3. A clumsy pirate lurches into Captain Hook's collar as the iron hook turns toward him
  4. In the empty dusk clearing, seven gnarled trees stand in a row, each with a hollow
  5. Captain Hook's sly smile breaks into gleeful laughter as he announces the poisoned cake
  6. Captain Hook freezes mid-step, hook trembling, at the crocodile's tick from the glade
  7. Five lost boys advance bent double, staring between their knees, as wolves back away
  8. Tinker Bell points and calls a false order as the lost boys gape up from below
  9. Tootles eagerly draws his bow, urged on by Tinker Bell glowing at his shoulder
  10. Tootles holds his bow raised as Wendy, struck by his arrow, tumbles down in her nightgown

Chapter 6The little house for Wendy

  1. Tootles stands proudly over the fallen Wendy as the other boys burst from the trees
  2. Peter holds the arrow like a dagger over kneeling Tootles, who bares his chest
  3. Peter holds up the acorn button beside the hole in Wendy's night-gown, proof she lives
  4. Peter stands rigid and cold-eyed, flinging his arm toward Tinker Bell to banish her
  5. In the dusk glade, Peter holds up a solemn palm to stop the boys from lifting the unconscious Wendy.
  6. Asleep on the mossy glade, Wendy sings of her dream house as boys and a fairy listen
  7. Wendy steps out of the little house; the boys doff caps and Peter looks on proudly
  8. The kneeling lost boys beg Wendy to be their mother as Peter watches from the side
  9. Wendy beckons the kneeling boys into the little house with a firm, motherly smile
  10. The little house glows among dark trunks as Peter stands guard with a drawn sword

Chapter 7The home under the ground

  1. A morning bird's-eye view of the island, smoke curling from the mushroom chimney
  2. Peter shoves a wedged John into his hollow tree as Wendy and Michael watch
  3. Underground, boys slide up and down the tree shafts as Wendy tends the washing
  4. Tink sits haughtily on her tiny Queen Mab couch, glowing among miniature furniture
  5. Late at night, Wendy flings up her arms over a basket of holed stockings, beaming
  6. Wendy looks at her slate of questions and realizes her memory of Mother is fading
  7. Peter, head bandaged, grins and sweeps out an arm as he recounts a grand adventure.
  8. In a scratched ring, a barefoot boy stares down lions as two children watch from branches

Chapter 8The Mermaids' Lagoon: Peter alone on the rock

  1. A wordless bird's-eye view of the Mermaids' Lagoon on a sunny day after rain.
  2. On the grey rock, Peter stands rigid with a thin fixed smile, pointing at the water
  3. Captain Hook hauls himself dripping up the dinghy's side, his hook over the gunwale
  4. Hook's pride breaks as a hidden voice calls him a codfish; Smee and Starkey recoil
  5. Treading water in the lagoon, Peter crows his name to the pirates on Marooners' Rock
  6. On Marooners' Rock, Hook bites the hand Peter offers him
  7. Peter's wide, wounded eyes as Hook's iron claw swings in at the edge
  8. On the drowning rock, a bitten, bandaged hand grips the paper tail of Michael's kite
  9. On the shrinking rock in the cold lagoon, Peter pushes a clinging Wendy away into the kite's lift.
  10. Alone on Marooners' Rock as the tide rises, Peter stands tall and smiles at death

Chapter 9The Never bird saves Peter with her nest

  1. From high above, the Mermaids' Lagoon lies vast and silent under a low rising moon.
  2. The Never bird steers her floating nest toward the boy stranded on the sinking rock
  3. Peter cups the Never bird's two white eggs while the mother hovers above
  4. The boy on his nest and the Never bird on the hat drift apart, each crowing in triumph

Chapter 10The last happy evening underground

  1. The Neverland at dusk, smoke rising from the hidden home and tiny watchers guarding it
  2. Peter stands lordly as Tiger Lily and her braves lie at his feet and Wendy watches
  3. In the firelit underground home, a girl sews as the boys dance and the smallest laughs
  4. The boys haul a laughing Peter out of his hollow tree as Wendy sews by the hearth
  5. Wendy keeps her hand on Peter's shoulder as he calls himself her devoted son
  6. Hurt, Wendy sits alone on a mushroom stool at the shadowed end of the underground home
  7. The children lie in bed as Wendy starts her story, while Peter sits on his stool

Chapter 11Wendy's story and the farewell

  1. Peter tells of his barred window as the boys and the Darlings close round him in fright
  2. Tootles rises to his full height and shields Wendy with his drawn hanger
  3. Peter lifts his chin and forces a smile as he refuses Wendy's plea
  4. A brisk, cheery handshake takes the place of a kiss, and the girl's hand answers it limply.
  5. Underground, Wendy and the children freeze, arms out to Peter, as steel clashes overhead

Chapter 12Hook's ruse of the tom-tom

  1. The Neverland before dawn, mist on the stream and a ring of tiny figures on a grassy rise
  2. Panther breaks the pirate line with his tomahawk as Tiger Lily steps through the gap
  3. Captain Hook eyes his pirates, choosing the thinnest to ram down the hollow trees
  4. Underground, Wendy and the boys wait, gazing up the tree shafts to hear who has won
  5. Captain Hook silently points his hook at the drum under Smee, who grins in admiration
  6. Below ground, Peter throws up his sword and cries victory as Tootles and the boys smile

Chapter 13Hook's poison, Tink's sacrifice

  1. The Neverland from above at nightfall, pirate lanterns gathering round the hidden glade
  2. At dusk, Captain Hook looks down in cold triumph at the trussed, gagged Slightly
  3. In the dark, a trembling hand tips a vial of poison over the medicine cup
  4. A boy's hand closes round a wooden cup as a tiny light flickers behind it in warning
  5. Tink darts between Peter's lips and the poisoned cup, taking the draught meant for him
  6. Peter begs the unseen children to believe in fairies as dying Tinker Bell sits up
  7. Tinker Bell blazes back to life and loops through the room as Peter kneels and smiles
  8. In the snowy night wood, Peter holds up his dagger and swears his oath against Hook

Chapter 14The Pirate Ship: Hook's Gloom and Peter's Arrival

  1. A silent black night over the pirate river's mouth, seen from high above.
  2. Captain Hook flinches as the schoolmaster's voice within him delivers its cutting retort.
  3. Hook's iron claw trembles above the bowed head of Smee, humming at the sewing machine
  4. Chained John slams the barrel before the pirate captain as his little brother refuses too
  5. Tied to the Jolly Roger's mast, Wendy speaks her mothers' message to the chained boys
  6. At the crocodile's first tick, Captain Hook crumples to the deck as everyone stares
  7. Wendy and the chained boys stare in joy as Peter rises over the bulwark, finger to lips

Chapter 15Hook or me: the fall of the pirates

  1. A tiny swimmer crosses Kidd's Creek toward the pirate brig, a second wake trailing him
  2. Unseen at the bulwark, Peter finds the pirate crew huddled in dread around their captain
  3. Peter's dagger silently fells the quartermaster as John smothers his groan
  4. The captain points his hook at the cabin door; his crew shoves the chained boys toward it
  5. Peter flings off Wendy's cloak and raises his dagger as the pirates reel back
  6. At Peter's shout, the boys hunt the scattering pirates as Hook stands rigid
  7. The cornered captain leaps to the powder hatch with a lit fuse, glancing back in defiance
  8. The pirate captain leaps onto the rail as the boy glides toward him, dagger poised
  9. Kicked by Peter, Captain Hook tips backward off the bulwark, arms wide, smiling
  10. Worn out, Peter sleeps against Long Tom, sobbing in a dream as Wendy holds him close

Chapter 16The Return Home: Peter Bars the Window, Then Lets Them In

  1. The children's ship comes about on a wide grey-blue sea, bow toward the faint mainland
  2. Mr. Darling crawls into the kennel as his wife coaxes him and Nana watches
  3. Mr. Darling, in his kennel atop a London cab, lifts his top hat to a peering lady
  4. Mrs. Darling stands at the open window in moonlight, keeping it open for her children
  5. Peter crouches on the window sill, hushing Tinker Bell with a finger to his lips
  6. Through the nursery door, a mother lays her head on the piano, two tears on her lashes
  7. Moved by Mrs. Darling's tears, Peter forces a sneer and grips the nursery window bar
  8. The three children sit up in bed as their mother, in the doorway, thinks them a dream
  9. Mrs. Darling hugs Wendy, John and Michael by the fire as Mr. Darling sleeps in his kennel

Chapter 17When Wendy Grew Up

  1. Mr. Darling's pompous grudge dissolves into tears as he admits he wanted to be asked.
  2. Mrs. Darling reaches out to the hovering boy, who recoils as Wendy watches
  3. A year on, Wendy flies off with Peter in her too-short frock as Michael watches
  4. In the night nursery, Michael whispers to Wendy his fear that Peter may not exist
  5. The grown Wendy gazes calmly toward the nursery window with a faint, rueful smile
  6. Wendy's daughter Jane looks at the bare nursery floor where the kennel once stood
  7. Under the sheet-tent, Wendy draws back as Jane says she hears Peter's crow in her sleep
  8. Grown Wendy, by the nursery fire, looks at Peter, unchanged in the moonlight
  9. Peter shrinks from the lamp Wendy offers to raise, his arm thrown up against the light.
  10. The lamp is turned up and Peter sees that Wendy has grown.
  11. In the night-nursery, Peter sobs on the floor, his dagger fallen beside him
  12. In the old nursery, Peter crows from the bed-post while Jane circles in solemn ecstasy.
  13. Peter says good-bye and rises toward the open window, Jane floating up beside him
  14. Grown Wendy watches her daughter and Peter dwindle into the starry sky