Wendy 1904 play "Peter Pan" and its 1911 novelization "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s but subsequently declined. The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. With the common childhood difficulty pronouncing "R"s, Margaret reportedly used to call him "my fwiendy-wendy". The name Wendy in Dutch is either of Anglo-Saxon origin or an abbreviation of names such as Wendela (an old-fashioned name which probably means related to the Vandals). Chinese women with the same or similar-sounding characters as their given names often anglicise their
Pick Me Up (book) Pick Me Up (book) Pick Me Up is an encyclopedic non-fiction book primarily intended for children. As the cover states, it is a collection of "Stuff you need to know". "Pick Me Up" is arranged into eight categories. These are: Science, Technology and Space; Society, Places and Beliefs; History; The Natural World; People Who Made the World; Arts, Entertainment and Media; You and Your Body; and Planet Earth. Each category has 10–40 separate articles. "Pick Me Up" was created by David Roberts and Jeremy Leslie. The articles within "Pick Me Up" were written by more than 20 different writers. "Pick