Editing Neverland (section)

==Description==

=== Location ===
The novel says that the Neverlands are compact enough that adventures are never far between, and that a map of a child's mind would resemble a map of Neverland, with no boundaries at all.<ref name="PeterAndWendy" /> Accordingly, Barrie explains that the Neverlands are found in the minds of children; although each is "always more or less an island" as well as having a family resemblance, they are not the same from one child to the next. For example, [[John Darling (Peter Pan)|John Darling]]'s Neverland had "a lagoon with flamingos flying over it," while his little brother [[Michael Darling (Peter Pan)|Michael]]'s had "a flamingo with lagoons flying over it."

The exact situation of Neverland is ambiguous and vague. In Barrie's original tale, the name for the real world is the Mainland, which suggests Neverland is a small island, reached by flight. Peter—who is described as saying "anything that came into his head"—tells Wendy the way to Neverland is "second to the right, and straight on till morning." In the novel, the children are said to have found the island only because it was "out looking for them." Barrie additionally writes that Neverland is near the "stars of the milky way" and it is reached "always at the time of sunrise."

In Barrie's ''[[Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens]]'' (1906), a proto-version of Neverland, located in the [[The Serpentine|Serpentine]] in [[Kensington Gardens]], is called the '''Birds' Island''', where baby Peter reaches by flight, or by sailing in a paper boat or [[Thrush (bird)|thrush]]'s nest.

[[Walt Disney]]'s 1953 ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' adds a "star" to Peter's directions: "second star to the right, and straight on till morning." From afar, these stars depict Neverland in the distance. The [[Peter Pan (2003 film)|2003 live-action film]] (produced by [[Universal Pictures]], [[Columbia Pictures]], [[Revolution Studios]], [[Red Wagon Entertainment]] and [[Allied Stars Ltd]]) repeats this representation, as the Darling children are flown through the [[Solar System]] to reach Neverland. In the 1991 film ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'' (produced by [[TriStar Pictures]] and [[Amblin Entertainment]]), Neverland is shown to be located in the same way as the 1953 Disney film. While flying is the only way to reach it, the film does not show exactly how Captain Hook manages to get from Neverland to London in order to kidnap Peter's children, Jack and Maggie. In ''[[Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'' (2006), by [[Geraldine McCaughrean]], Neverland is located in waters known as the 'Sea of One Thousand Islands'. The children get to the island by flying on a road called the High Way.

In [[Peter David]]'s 2009 novel ''Tigerheart'', Neverland is renamed the '''Anyplace''' and is described as being both a physical place and a dream land where human adults and children go when they dream. Additionally, there is a location called the '''Noplace''' which is cold and devoid of colour where people in a coma and those who are "lost" live. In the 2011 miniseries ''[[Neverland (miniseries)|Neverland]]'', inspired by Barrie's works, the titular place is said to be another planet existing at the centre of the universe. It is accessible only via a magic portal generated by a strange sphere. 

In the 2015 American film ''[[Pan (2015 film)|Pan]]'', Neverland is a floating island in a sky-like dimension.

=== Time ===
The passage of time in Neverland is similarly ambiguous. The novel ''[[Peter and Wendy]]'' mentions that in Neverland there are many more suns and moons than on the Mainland, making time difficult to track.<ref>Barrie, J.M. (1911) ''Peter & Wendy'', Chapter 7</ref> One way to tell the time is to find the crocodile, and wait until the clock inside it strikes the hour.<ref>Barrie, J.M. (1911) ''Peter & Wendy'', Chapter 10</ref> Although Neverland is widely thought of as a place where children don't grow up, it is made clear in ''Peter and Wendy'' that [[Lost Boys (Peter Pan)|Lost Boys]] can grow up and are vaguely thinned out as punishment for doing so.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barrie |first=James |title=Peter and Wendy |date=September 18, 2008 |publisher=Project Gutenberg |year= |pages=76-77}}</ref> Peter also explains to Wendy that fairies have short lifespans, another temporal confusion. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Barrie |first=James |title=Peter and Wendy |date=September 18, 2008 |publisher=Project Gutenberg |pages=256}}</ref>

In ''[[Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'' (2006), by [[Geraldine McCaughrean]], time freezes as soon as the children arrived in Neverland. In the 2011 miniseries ''[[Neverland (miniseries)|Neverland]]'', in which Neverland is said to be another planet entirely, time has frozen due to external cosmic forces converging on the planet, preventing anyone living there from ageing.