Back in England, Molly Aster and her friends begin tracking down clues that ultimately lead them to Peter’s real identity and how he came to be at the home for wayward boys.
Talking about any of these plotlines too much will give away important twists and turns in Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Suffice to say there are plenty of surprises, and that Barry and Ridley really do justice to Barrie’s creation and invented world. In a way, the authors really set up Barrie’s initial novel by explaining many of the things Peter Pan fans have always wondered.
If you haven’t read this trilogy, you can’t wander through them. The books have to be read in order. Peter’s powers grow, as does the villainy of his foes. And readers are gently nudged out of the world that existed then and slid right into Neverland. If you like juvenile fantasy novels, you’ll be hard-pressed to find many better, more quick to read, or more inventive than these. The world is at once familiar and wondrous.
But the best time you’ll ever have is sitting down with these and reading them to your kids. Unless you’re a kid yourself. Then wait twenty years and read them then. These books are going to be timeless.
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