Below are the list of books mentioned in the story. Click on the Book Title for a Royalty-free online version (courtesy of Project Gutenberg) and the Author's Name for a brief biography. Enjoy!
Fun Fact: In professional plays, the character of Peter Pan has always been played by a woman, as originally suggested by Barrie's agent for the first performance.
Fun Fact: The Original story, "The Story of the Three Bears," was written by English poet, Robert Southey In the beginning, three bears of different sizes were visited by a bad, old lady. After numerous retelling, the visitor became a fair-haired little girl, and not until 1878 were the bears identified as Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear.
Fun Fact: An unpublished work of Jules Verne (his first novel written in 1863, "Paris au XXième siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century)," was discovered in a safe that had been passed down to his great-grandson. It was published (in 1994) and became a bestseller in Paris 90 years after Verne's death. The novel predicted cars, gas stations, computers, ATM Machines and giant bookstores.
Fun Fact: It was the first novel of its kind to be told through the eyes of an animal. Black Beauty, with its strong moral message, was said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein (a short rein looped over a hook on the saddle of a harness to prevent a horse from lowering its head).
Fun Fact: Lewis Carroll is the Nom de Plume (or Pen Name) of Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which is incidentally also the Latinized version of his own name.
Fun Fact: Baum had used a number of Noms de Plume (Pen Names) including Edith van Dyne.
