Peter Pan

About J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie (Author) Sir James Matthew Barrie lived from 1860 to 1937. Born and raised in Scotland he later moved to London where he became a successful writer of plays and novels. While in London Barrie met the Llewelyn Davies family who inspired him to write Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Peter Pan first appeared as a play in London in 1904 and was developed into a novel in 1911. By this point Barrie had become guardian to the Llewelyn Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death Barrie gave the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. From that moment on all the proceeds from his most famous creation would go to the Hospital. Grahame Baker-Smith (Illustrator) Grahame is a self-taught award-winning illustrator from Oxford who completed his training at Berkshire School of Art. He has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood FARTHER. He has illustrated numerous other picture books for Templar including The Rhythm of the Rain which won the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards and the Greenaway shortlisted Leon and the Place Between.