Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan Deborah Stevenson Yolen, Jane . Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan; illus. by Steve Adams. Dutton, 2010. 40p. ISBN 978-0-525-47886-7 $17.99 Ad Gr. 3-4. This straightforward picture book-style biography of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie chronicles his childhood in Scotland, his early writerly attempts, his move to London, his burgeoning success as a playwright and novelist, and the creation and legacy of his best-known work. Along the way, it documents his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies children, who collectively inspired Peter Pan, and his eventual guardianship of them after the death of their parents. The tale is on the adulatory side, and it skips over the complexities of his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, stating incorrectly that he became the official guardian of the boys (his seizing of sole custody was never officially sanctioned). Though many cited quotations appear from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter and Wendy, and the play Peter Pan, the narrative never explains the difference between them, and typos (the misspelling of one of Barrie's works and, at one point, the Llewelyn Davies family's name) and formatting oddities mar the text with unusual frequency. That being said, this is a solid introduction to the life and legacy of a man who has been overshadowed by his best-known work, and it may be a revelation to youngsters who thought Peter Pan was dreamed up either by Walt Disney or a peanut-butter company. Though the faces in the woodgrain-textured paintings are a little unindividuated, there's an elfin quality to them that lifts the art's earth-toned period formality. A selected list of Barrie's works and a few actresses who've played Peter appear at the book's a close; a brief list of works consulted appears on the copyright page. [End Page 105] Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".