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
Bible for children Bible for children Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible aimed at children. First printed in London in 1759, "The Children's Bible" (Philadelphia, 1763) was the earliest Bible for children printed in America. Story-Bibles include Christian Gottlob Barth's "Bible Stories" which was a popular children's Bible in India during the 1840s, Logan Marshall's "The Wonder Book of Bible Stories" (1904), Arthur S. Maxwell's "The Bible Story" (1953–57) and "The Children's Bible Story Book" (1991) a children's version of the Bible by Anne de Graaf placed in United Kingdom