We are honored and delighted to be hosting Cat Valente today as a stop on The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland Blog Tour. The book is a sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making which was a rare double 10 and a top 10 book of 2011 for us both. Please give it up for Cat and her wonderful post about Growing Up, Fairyland-style! Eighteen or Eighty One of the most upsetting scenes in literature (or at least upsetting to me) comes at the end of Peter Pan. Wendy, after waiting an entire lifetime for Peter to return for spring cleaning and take her back to Neverland, has grown old. She has children and a house of her own. Peter comes blithely to her window to spirit her off as he promised—and when he sees her age he sees not wisdom or kindness or a life well lived, but is horrified by her, even terrified at her proximity to death, which he will never have to face. Peter throws a small tantrum over the unfairness of it—the unfairness to him that she grew up, as though it was a kind of betrayal, and […]