Peter and the Starcatchers
October 28, 2009When Peter and the Starcatchers was introduced in class as a way to find out where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell came from I was very intrigued. The aspect that I believe that children will love the most is that the heros of the story are children. Children (and adults) will also like the suspense, the magic and the adventure. I know that as I read the story I found my self so intrigued that I couldn’t put the book down. I believe that this story has the power to captivate the reader’s mind and draw them into an imaginary world full of mystery.
Another aspect of the book that differs from the Disney movie Peter Pan is that it shows that a pirates life wasn’t very pleasant. This is evident in the slop with things wiggling in it that the boys were brought as food. It is also shown in the description of Black Stache when his hair was described as being greasy from years without washing and his teeth as being brown as tree trunks. The book also showed another reality of pirate life when Black Stache wanted The Wasp for his own. Finally, the treasure-what every pirate dreams of!
