Wendy Book

I was pre-reading this to see if it was appropriate for my eight-year-old, who wants to read every Peter Pan related book written in English.

It was entirely realistic with not a touch of fantasy. After spending so many pages observing this perceptive little girl's agony, caused by her precocious ability to empathize with adult problems like adultery and financial ruin, the author provides us only an overly simplistic resolution that no one older than fourteen could believe really helps anything get better. When her contact with Peter is finally foreshadowed, the author insinuates that he's the product of an emotionally deprived child's head trauma.

A sad and pointless story. I'm not letting my kid touch this with a ten foot pole.