The Little White Bird

The Little White Bird
Author	J. M. Barrie
Genre	Fairytale fantasy, fictional diary, novel for adult readers
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton (UK); Charles Scribner's Sons (US)
Publication date	November 1902 (both)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	349 (US: Scribner's, 1902)
OCLC	4789092
LC Class	PZ3.B277 Li
Followed by	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

The Little White Bird is a novel by the Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, ranging in tone from fantasy and whimsy to social comedy with dark, aggressive undertones.^[3] It was published in November 1902, by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Scribner's in the US (and the latter also published it serially in the monthly Scribner's Magazine from August to November).^[1] The book attained prominence and longevity thanks to several chapters written in a softer tone than the rest of the book, which introduced the character and mythology of Peter Pan. In 1906, those chapters were published separately as a children's book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.^[3]

The Peter Pan story began as one chapter and grew to an "elaborate book-within-a-book" of more than one hundred pages during the four years Barrie worked on The Little White Bird.^[4]

The complete book has also been published under the title The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens.^[5]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference LEL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "The little white bird" (first US edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
^ ^a ^b Barrie, J.M. (1999). Peter Hollindale (Introduction and Notes) (ed.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy. Oxford World's Classics. pp. xix.
^ Birkin, Andrew (2003). J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys. Yale University Press. p. 93. ISBN 0-300-09822-7.
^ J. M. Barrie. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (public domain full text no-cost download). Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

[LEL-1] Cite error: The named reference LEL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[LCC-2] "The little white bird" (first US edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 11 March 2014.

[hollindale-xix-3] Barrie, J.M. (1999). Peter Hollindale (Introduction and Notes) (ed.). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy. Oxford World's Classics. pp. xix.

[birkin-93-4] Birkin, Andrew (2003). J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys. Yale University Press. p. 93. ISBN 0-300-09822-7.

[5] J. M. Barrie. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (public domain full text no-cost download). Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

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