The Little White Bird: or Adventures In Kensington Gardens (Annotated)

The Little White Bird is a British book by J. M. Barrie, ranging in tone from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark, aggressive undertones. It was published in November 1902 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Scribner’s in the US, although the latter had released it serially in the monthly Scribner’s Magazine from August to November. The book attained prominence and longevity thanks to several chapters written in a softer tone than the rest of the book, which introduced the character and mythology of Peter Pan. In 1906 those chapters were published separately as a children’s book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. The Peter Pan story began as one chapter and grew to an “elaborate book-within-a-book” of more than one hundred pages during the four years Barrie worked on The Little White Bird.
This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents. It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, plot introduction, plot summary, major themes, literary significance, information about Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, biographical and bibliographical information.