She cooks and cleans and mends clothes, and she has a wonderful time with it. But soon everything is well: Peter returns, and Wendy agrees to be the boys’ mother. Tinker Bell, who is jealous of Peter and Wendy’s new friendship, uses the opportunity to try and get rid of Wendy: she tells the lost boys to shoot Wendy, and Wendy almost dies. Pirates who also inhabit the island fire a gun at the group and everyone flies in different directions. Peter teaches all three Darling children how to fly and they set off to Neverland.Īfter flying for several days and nights, they finally spot the island on the horizon. He asks Wendy to come with him to Neverland, where she could go on adventures and be a mother to all the little boys.

Peter confesses that he has been listening in on the children’s bedtime stories so that he could repeat them to the lost boys. His bitter crying wakes Wendy, who quickly sews the shadow on for him. When Tink gives Peter the shadow, Peter finds that he can’t get it to stay on. They are looking for Peter’s shadow, which Mrs. When the Darling parents leave for the party, the children are left unguarded, and Peter and Tinker Bell fly into the nursery. Darling quarrels slightly with the children and ties Nana in the yard, to everyone’s dismay. When Peter notices an adult in the room, he jumps out the window, but the children's canine nanny, Nana, traps his shadow inside the room.Ī few nights later, when the Darlings are dressing for a party, Mr. Darling wakes up to find that Peter Pan has indeed come to visit. One night, when she is resting in the nursery, Mrs. Darling asks about this mysterious boy, Wendy explains that Peter sometimes visits them when they’re asleep. She is surprised to find that all the children have been thinking of someone named Peter Pan. Darling is 'sorting through her children’s minds' at bedtime. The story begins in the nursery of Darling home, where Mrs.

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