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Yolen, Jane

Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Adams. In this detailed biography, some of the information seems superfluous; the book would have benefited from a more selective, fine-tuned text. However, both the inclusion throughout of well-chosen quotes from Barrie's work and Adams's soft-hued, nicely textured illustrations artfully elaborate upon the text's depiction of how Barrie's early life influenced his eventual creation of Peter Pan.

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