Peter and Wendy

Regis Loisel's six albums are an origin story for Barrie's characters, written backwards from the book rather than adapting it. Everything named is Barrie's: Peter, Tinker Bell, Hook, the Lost Boys, the crocodile, Neverland, the second star. What Loisel supplies is the before: a Victorian London slum, an alcoholic mother, and an explanation of why a boy would refuse to grow up that Barrie leaves as a fact about the world. The map already holds several works doing this to the same source (Lost Boy, Tiger Lily, The Child Thief), and this is the one that did it first. Recorded as an influence rather than an adaptation because it retells nothing: it invents a prequel to a book it assumes you know.

Christina Henry's novel is Peter and Wendy retold by the boy who becomes Captain Hook, from before Barrie's story starts. It keeps Barrie's furniture exactly: the island, the Lost Boys, the crocodile, the refusal to grow up, and a Peter who is charming and lethal in the proportions Barrie actually wrote him. The reversal is that the charm is read as predation. This is an influence rather than an adaptation because it does not retell Barrie's plot; it writes the years the original leaves out.

Katherine Paterson has discussed Peter Pan as an important influence. Both works examine childhood imagination alongside the inevitability of growing up and loss.

Neil Gaiman has repeatedly cited J. M. Barrie as a major influence. The novel revisits childhood memory, magic, and the lasting impact of imagination.

The Neverending Story reflects ideas associated with Peter Pan, particularly the relationship between childhood, imagination, and growing up. Both works feature a child who leaves the ordinary world for a fantasy realm and undergoes a personal transformation there. Michael Ende also shared J. M. Barrie's view of imagination as something that should be preserved rather than abandoned in adulthood, although The Neverending Story presents this theme through its own original story and symbolism rather than borrowing characters or plot.

Disney's adaptation of Barrie's novel, in development since the 1930s. It keeps the nursery, the flight, the pirates and the crocodile, and removes Barrie's narrator, whose asides about the children's mother are most of what makes the book unsettling.

Delibarate reinterpretation of peter pan. Retains central character and mythology but Neverland is set as Avalon, kept the lost boys and captain Hook. Brom made his own dark fantasy version of peter pan.

Adapted Peter Pan story, focussing on a character that lacked attention in the original story and bringing in more themes. Story narrated by Tinker Bell.

The debt is written into Barrie's text, which is rare enough to earn the HIGH:

• Hook is described as having been Blackbeard's bo'sun, and the only man Long John Silver ever feared. Barrie is naming Stevenson's character inside his own book
• Hook's crew includes Smee and Starkey, and the pirate ship, the dread of the black spot and the marooning are all Stevenson's furniture
• Barrie knew Stevenson by correspondence and admired him openly

Neverland's pirates are not generic pirates. They are Treasure Island's pirates, moved into a nursery story and made funny enough to survive there.

• J. M. Barrie drew on the Victorian tradition of boys' adventure stories, with The Coral Island being one of the best-known examples.
• Both feature boys living apart from adults on an island, creating their own society and embarking on adventures.
• Barrie echoes and gently satirizes aspects of Ballantyne's idealized portrayal of boyhood and imperial adventure.

Peter Pan was first created as a play in 1904 before its writer decided to make a novel out of it, published in 1911 : Peter Pan and Wendy, sometimes found as just "Peter Pan"

A tale of Kensington Gardens, where we are introduced to Peter Pan before his play then later on next book.