It makes sense to us, for who else would be the caretakers for young boys? Certainly not the high fairies of the Fairylands, whose attentions are devoted almost entirely to young girls (all but the Blue Fairy, but she is the exception in more ways than this), and we witches don’t have time for the likes of grubby little boys. We suppose that is why the Fairy Council sent one of their unruly fairies, a tinker fairy by the name of Tinker Bell, to care for the boys in Never Land. Two birds with one stone, as they say: the Fairy Council has someone care for the little troublemakers who refuse to grow up and they rid themselves of a fairy whom the Fairy Godmother and Three Good Fairies did not approve of. This is not unusual in the Fairylands, as you may have read or will read in this tome should you decide to explore it. But we will waste no more time on the likes of the Fairy Godmother and her ilk here. Instead we will focus on James, and his quest to find Never Land.

To us, Never Land was a trifling place, filled with ill-tempered and foolhardy young boys who wish never to grow up—and somehow never do. That seemed to be the extent of the magic there as far as we knew, aside from Tinker Bell’s magic fairy dust, so it didn’t bother us that we were forbidden by the Fairy Council to travel there. But when James started to get our attention, our gaze shifted upward to the second star to the right, and straight on till morning.

As you can imagine, a place such as Never Land appealed to young James.

When he fell out of his pram in London, he spent six days in Never Land. It was a place of high adventure, where he ran around in animal skins and got up to all sorts of tomfoolery with the Lost Boys. It was far more appealing than his life in London with his stuffy nurse. He would have stayed there happily for the rest of his days, but unfortunately, on the sixth day, his parents found him and brought him home. If he had remained missing just one day longer, Never Land would have claimed him, and he would have remained a Lost Boy forever. But his destiny was to grow up.

James would never get over leaving Never Land behind. Visions of the life and the adventures he could have had stayed with him, haunting him to the point of obsession into adulthood. He made it his life’s quest to return to Never Land, and he never gave up on his search.