To the average observer, Paul Dear seems to be a perfectly ordinary boy from an ordinary family, with a doting father who tells wonderful stories and an indulgent mother who does her best to temper these stories with common sense. However, the former pirate who wanders London’s Kensington Gardens is no average observer, and he notices what others do not—namely, that Paul Dear is connected to the Anyplace.

The Anyplace is author Peter David's take on J.M. Barrie’s Neverland in his novel TIGERHEART (Del Rey; hardcover; June 2008), but this is not the Neverland of Barrie’s PETER PAN or the Disney animated movie. For one thing, Peter Pan, or The Boy, is not the main character, and instead of viewing all grown-ups as the enemy, TIGERHEART looks at the complexities of growing up and whether it really means that one can’t still believe in seemingly impossible things.

"TIGERHEART is not your average story. Its fantasy occasionally contemplates reality, and the result is thoroughly entertaining: easily the best book I’ve read in years. The author's style was especially engaging. Throughout the book I found myself rereading paragraphs because I thought they were so cleverly written, I just had to enjoy them again."
—Anne Bristow, webmistress, Quotations 101

"[Offers] the same kind of atmosphere as William Goldman’s The Princess Bride … the adventures are suitably stimulating and unpredictable and satisfying to our demands for both thrills and archetypical justice."
—SciFi.com (Grade: A)

"Peter David sees the world a bit differently from everyone else—strangely, wonderfully, stunningly differently. Reading TIGERHEART gave me the feeling of walking a comfortably familiar road, but seeing things from angles I never knew existed."
—R.A. Salvatore, New York Times bestselling author of THE ORC KING

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