Never Land Books

{{Short description|Chapter book series}}

The Never Land Books or Never Land Adventures are a series of short chapter books set in Never Land, the home of Peter Pan. They are based on the situations and characters established in the novel Peter and the Starcatchers and its sequels. Like the novels, the books are written by American authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and illustrated by Greg Call. Although five Never Land books were planned,{{Cn|date=October 2024}} only three were published: Escape from the Carnivale (2006),{{Cite web |last=Rearick |first=Karlene |date=2006 |title=NECBA Fall 2006 Reviews |url=http://www.newenglandbooks.org/necba_fall2006-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119210042/http://www.newenglandbooks.org/necba_fall2006-1.html |archive-date=2008-01-19 |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=New England Independent Booksellers Association}}{{Cite web |last=Sawtelle |first=Sarah |date= |title=ESCAPE FROM THE CARNIVALE: A Never Land Book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |url=http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/0786837896.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716005324/http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/0786837896.asp |archive-date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Kids Reads}} Cave of the Dark Wind (2007),{{Cite web |last=Sawtelle |first=Sarah |date= |title=CAVE OF THE DARK WIND: A Never Land Book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |url=https://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/078683790X.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207224515/https://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/078683790X.asp |archive-date=2012-02-07 |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Kids Reads}} and Blood Tide (2008). The stories focus on supporting characters from the novels, such as the Mollusk Island Natives, mermaids, pirates, and Lost Boys.

The books are published by Hyperion Books (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) in defiance of a copyright claim of Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) of London, to which writer J. M. Barrie gave the Peter Pan works in 1929, as confirmed in his will. GOSH has argued that United States copyright law gives them exclusive rights to the characters and setting until 2023. Disney argues that the copyright had already expired in the U.S. when Congress extended the term to the length claimed by GOSH.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Graham |date=2004-10-13 |title=Children's hospital may sue Disney |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/peter.pan/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315121344/https://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/10/13/peter.pan/index.html |archive-date=2012-03-15 |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=CNN}}