A bare-bones retelling of J.M. Barrie's original story, adapted into children's book form and translated into Japanese. The illustrations are done in a fun, manga-style which gives a new cultural lens to the familiar story. None of the playfulness of the original language remains, but that's less an artifact of the translation, and more of the short length and simple sentence structure.

Good for students of Japanese who want to practice on a familiar story told in an unfamiliar way. ( )