Peter Pan (Aladdin Classics)
Susan Cooper is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor and has sold millions of copies worldwide. She is also the author ofVictory, aBooklistTop Ten Historical Fiction for Youth book and aWashington PostTop Ten for Children novel;King of Shadows, aBoston Globe-Horn BookAward Honor book;The Boggart;Seaward;Ghost Hawk; and many other acclaimed novels for young readers and listeners. She lives in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.J.M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892.Peter Pan, first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story ofPeter Panfirst appeared in book form (titledPeter and Wendy, and laterPeter Pan and Wendy) in 1911. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright ofPeter Panto the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.