Straight Back to the Library

Yes, it exists. A Disney book about my favorite childhood story that I hated reading. Straight on Till Morning was such a confusing book for me to get through and I never really knew what was going on. About halfway through, I just stopped paying attention because I was so lost in the storyline. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this one, but we can deep dive into it anyway.

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling’s life is not what she imagined it would be. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess — it all makes her wish things could be different.

Wendy’s only real escape is writing down tales of Never Land. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. She also holds on to his shadow.

So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. But Never Land isn’t quite the place she imagined. Unexpected dangers and strange foes pop up at every turn and a little pixie named Tinker Bell seems less than willing to help.

When Captain Hook reveals some rather permanent and evil plans for Never Land, it’s up to the two of them to save Peter Pan — and his world.

Overall, this story started off similar to the original when Wendy is still in London and dreaming of Never Land. But once she arrived there, I got totally lost. She and many other characters acted as though she had been there before and that they already knew her, but she hadn’t.

I understand that the point of this series is to change the original stories we know so well. I think this book was the first in the series to change the story so drastically that it became more difficult to follow and harder to find the original within it.