In the article “The Case of Peter Pan”, disturbing details on how classic “children” novels are written are revealed. When you think of stories like Peter Pan, you generally think of the Walt Disney, happy ending version. Few people know the true original story, and those who do know it definitely question how it ever became a children’s classic. As discussed in class, novels such as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland serve as outlets to their perverse writers. These writers were obsessed with children and the idea of childhood. Never never land is a phantasmic world where children stay children — however, the price to pay is that they can never leave. During class discussion, a very important point was brought up: children don’t want to stay children, they want to grow up, sometimes a little too fast. It is the adults that wish to go back to childhood and stay young forever. The novel was not even originally intended to be a children’s novel and had to be edited so it could be deemed “appropriate” for children. This brings us to the realization that most children’s books are not really intended with the child in mind and are instead sort of forced upon them. It really beckons the question of what children’s literature really is, and I hope that we will have a better understanding of it as we go forth in the class.