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
The Way-Out Record for Children homemade electronic instruments, which used modular synthesis, were capable of random composition and 12-voice polyphony, and were recorded using a pair of two-track reel-to-reel tapes, with tape echo added to the music for a moody vibe. The albums, with their naive, homedrawn cover artwork, were commercially unsuccessful, but – according to Nelson – engaged children due to Haack's "lack of self-consciousness," which was apparent in the music's "magpie-like imagination, jumping from one glittering fascination to another, combining instruments sounds and styles" according to author Mark Brend. The fourth instalment in Dimension 5's children's record series, "The Way-Out Record for Children"