Does After the Rain copy the Peter Pan story?
No. Like many great books, After the Rain builds on an earlier, famous work, but develops some of the characters in that work–Peter and Tinker Bell -in a different way, bringing them into the present. Peter Pan was the story of a boy who didn’t want to grow up. Emily Somma’s story is about Peter Pan coming to see that he should want to grow up. Emily told the story like this because she wanted children to see something different in the Barrie story. And for many parents, Emily’s story will be a better story for their children to read.
