THE ISLAND OF
LOST CHILDREN
Book 1
REIMAGINING THE STORY OF
PETER & WENDY
by
Kim Batchelor
Genre: Middle Grade / Fairy Tale / Fantasy
Publisher: Luna y Miel Publishing
Date of Publication: November 9, 2013
Number of Pages: 188
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Peter is still the boy who doesn’t grow up. Wendy is a girl who had to grow up too soon. And Wendy’s brother, Michael, has autism and a connection to The Island of Lost Children, a book for readers 8-12 and any fan of Peter Pan. When Peter leaves his island home, it’s to search for pick-up soccer games and mock sword fights. Wendy spends her evenings looking after her two brothers—sometimes bratty JJ as well as Michael—while her parents work nights. In the midst of several unusual events including the disappearance of her classmate, Lily, at odds with her adoptive mother, Wendy doesn’t realize that Peter’s pirate nemesis is keeping an eye on her. Everything changes for Wendy and her family when a peculiar fairy named Bellatresse helps Peter find the girl whose stories he once listened to outside her bedroom window.
With its quirky humor and occasionally touching moments, The Island of Lost Children is about children creating their own stories, families, and communities, all while swashbuckling, navigating mystical rivers, riding child-made roller coasters, and, of course, sailing high through the open skies.
I was given the pleasure to review this current version of Peter and Wendy. I was given the book for my honest review. This book is a very well written well and you can follow is smoothly.
Kim Batcherlor introduces us to today's Peter, Wendy, Michael and JJ. They live in a broken home. The parents are constantly fighting and times are most difficult for the parents and the children. One day, Children start to disappear. This puts fear in all the classmates and parents.
Then you are introduced to Bellatresse who is the modern version of Tinker Bell. She is quit a nasty thing at times and is extremely jealous of Wendy and others. Wendy seems to notice her teacher Mr. Deets is acting very weird one day. He does seem to pick on her in class for some reason. The next day he goes missing.
Wendy meets up with a classmate named, Lily. Lily gets taken by Hook and Wendy saves her. This is a story of children fighting the notorious Hook. It is a nice twist of Peter and Wendy. I would recommend this to children. I give this book 4.5 stars
Thank you LSLL for allowing to participate in this blog tour. Thank you, Kim Batchelor for this lovely story and book.
I was given the pleasure to review this current version of Peter and Wendy. I was given the book for my honest review. This book is a very well written well and you can follow is smoothly.
Kim Batcherlor introduces us to today's Peter, Wendy, Michael and JJ. They live in a broken home. The parents are constantly fighting and times are most difficult for the parents and the children. One day, Children start to disappear. This puts fear in all the classmates and parents.
Then you are introduced to Bellatresse who is the modern version of Tinker Bell. She is quit a nasty thing at times and is extremely jealous of Wendy and others. Wendy seems to notice her teacher Mr. Deets is acting very weird one day. He does seem to pick on her in class for some reason. The next day he goes missing.
Wendy meets up with a classmate named, Lily. Lily gets taken by Hook and Wendy saves her. This is a story of children fighting the notorious Hook. It is a nice twist of Peter and Wendy. I would recommend this to children. I give this book 4.5 stars
Thank you LSLL for allowing to participate in this blog tour. Thank you, Kim Batchelor for this lovely story and book.
Kim Batchelor writes books for children and adults, stories both real and fantastical, foreign and domestic. She has been published in the Texas Observer, The Best of Friday Flash, and local literary journal, Contexas. She teaches creative writing to incarcerated women and lives in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, with a spouse, two dogs, and way too many cats. One of her prized possessions is a busted tambourine given to her by Eddie Vedder. Okay, he tossed it to her in a dark stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, but the real story is never as interesting as the one she makes up.
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