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Record W4229712696 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2010.0119

Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan (review)

2010· article· en· W4229712696 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Games and Media
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtHistoryPsychoanalysisPsychology

Abstract

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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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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.300
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0050.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it