In the first years of the twentieth century, a strange book titled The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens enchanted readers with its fusion of whimsy and dark humor, its way of addressing adults in a way that honors the eternal child alive in each of us, and especially with one of its characters: a small boy named Peter Pan.J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (public library | public domain) - the story of baby Peter, who, "like all infants," was part bird but has now to learn to live an earthbound life - was published in 1906 with illustrations by the wildly imaginative, wildly prolific Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867-September 6, 1939).
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