🔖 James Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best re-membered today as the creator of Peter Pan, a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can ? y and never grows up. “Peter Pan in the Kensington Gardens” introduces Peter Pan, who dis-covered the magic of everyday existence amid the trees and ?owers of Kensington Gardens. Before he ?ew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn’t grow up dwelt in the heart of London, with birds and fairies.