Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June 1879 – 5 November 1964) was a British illustrator and comics artist. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. Attwell was born in Mile End, London, 4 June 1879, the sixth child of butcher Augustus Attwell and his wife Emily Ann. She was educated privately and at the Coopers' Company School and at the Regent Street school. She studied at Heatherley's and Saint Martin's School of Art, and but left to develop
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens When Peter is not playing, he likes to make graves for the children who get lost at night, burying them with little headstones in the Gardens. Most of the text of "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was included as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's earlier novel "The Little White Bird", published in 1902, with minor differences appearing on only nine pages of the separately published 1906 novel. "The Little White Bird" was published as a novel for adult readers; whereas "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" was published specifically as a children's book. Scholar Jacqueline Rose perceives, however, that the book is