What are your favorite Peter Pan illustrations? Who is your favorite artist that's taken on the story?

I am reading "Peter and Wendy" to my kindergarten class, a chapter a day. They are loving it. I'm always looking for different illustrators, but so often find the drawings ghastly. I'm using a unique edition now by Raquel Jaramillo. She uses photos of children (and adults for the pirates and parents). They are quite lovely, a bit too tame and clean for the boy who hated mothers. But I especially appreciate that the illustrations are actually of children (so often I find Peter drawn as an adolescent). My kids like it best out of the copies we have. Her pictures are deep in color and very large. The pages are also so smooth for them to turn.

I personally like the ones by Francis Donkin Bedford. Especially his poetic capture of the characters' emotions. How about you all? I'd be curious to look up some.

Haven't been on this forum in ages. It's been fun catching up on the posts. Anyway, Peter Pan/Barrie, who has had a huge influence throughout my childhood/teens, is always creeping back into my adulthood with so many of my students wondering what happens after the night lights are lit, and who left 'mini-graves' with a single initial all about the cemetery. So the stories and adventures go on. But a question has kept popping up. Not by the kids, but eavesdropping grownups during story time:

If he runs away the day he's born, then how is he a boy when he meets Wendy?

My answer is that he run away to the Gardens for awhile and anyone can age there. Flying off to Neverland came later before he lost any of his first teeth and when he was "just Wendy's size" and thus stayed that age.

But I've actually heard other answers, and am curious in what you all have to say, probably better than my explanation.