Today’s Random Illustrations of the Day are color illustrations (original via Google Books) of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy by British illustrator Mabel Lucie Atwell. (It is once again striking to see how much Disney’s take of classic characters has differed from previous interpretations like these.)

Note: These images are in the public domain. For more information, see A Primer on Image Rights on OBA.

“I daresay it will hurt a little.”

Peter keeps watch.

“They don’t want us to land.”

A mermaid caught Wendy.

Wendy’s story. ‘But the window was barred.’

The pirate ship. When he had freed Wendy.

When Wendy grew up.

A strange procession set off.

The never bird.

The home in the ground.

Starkey sighted nibs disappearing.

‘They are the children who fall out of their peramulators.’

Title page to Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Atwell

Two is the beginning of the end.

Peter sometimes came and played on his pipes.

“I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived for a long long time among the fairies.”

Tinkerbell aloft

Michael took his medicine.

They are not really friendly to Peter.

He tried to stick it on with soap, but that also failed.

“I won’t go to bed.”

“No more of it, Nana,” she said sternly, pulling her out of the room.

Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.

And when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bote their thumbs at each other.

As the boys advanced upon them in their terrible attitude.

The wolves dropped their tails and fled.

“Out of the way, Tink,” he shouted.

Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed them.

She never had a civil word from one of them.

In a few minutesshe was borne out of his sight.

They pretended to be frightened by their own shadows.

In the bitterness of his remorse he swore that he would never leave the kennel until his children came back.

They live in nests on the tops of trees.