<P> Barrie then adapted the play into the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy (most often now published simply as Peter Pan). </P> <P> The original draft of the play was entitled simply Anon: A Play . Barrie's working titles for it included The Great White Father and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Hated Mothers . Producer Charles Frohman disliked the title on the manuscript, in answer to which Barrie reportedly suggested The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up; Frohman suggested changing it to Wouldn't and dropping The Great White Father as a title . </P> <P> Although the character appeared previously in Barrie's book The Little White Bird, the play and its novelisation contain the story of Peter Pan mythos that is best known . The two versions differ in some details of the story, but have much in common . In both versions Peter makes night - time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling's bedtime stories by the open window . One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow . On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling . Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories . He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens . Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along . </P> <P> Their magical flight to Neverland is followed by many adventures . The children are blown out of the air by a cannon and Wendy is nearly killed by the Lost Boy Tootles . Peter and the Lost Boys build a little house for Wendy to live in while she recuperates (a structure that, to this day, is called a Wendy House .) Soon John and Michael adopt the ways of the Lost Boys . </P>

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