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Peter Pan: A Clearview Large Print Edition (Large Print Edition)

Peter Pan: A Clearview Large Print Edition (Large Print Edition)

Barrie, James Matthew

Hardcover

Series: Clearview Editions

General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1608888088
ISBN13: 9781608888085
Publisher: Clearview Editions
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 420
Weight: 2.07
Height: 0.94 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, originally published 1911. Peter Pan first appeared as a stage play in 1904 and as a novel in 1911, written by a Scottish playwright haunted by the early death of his older brother and the long shadow that loss cast over his idea of childhood. Barrie wrote a children's adventure that is secretly the saddest book ever written about adults, hidden in plain sight under flying boys and pirates. The book still matters because it tells children the truth their parents hesitate to tell them: that the door to childhood closes once, and the choice to walk through it is also a choice to lose something irreplaceable. This Clearview Editions hardcover is built on a production standard that significantly exceeds the industry norm for large-print publishing. The body text is set at 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 24-point leading, a 1.33-ratio line-spacing pairing that meets American Printing House for the Blind and NAVH standards for super large print. The leading North American large-print hardcover imprints typically set their body text at 16 point, and most large-print trade paperbacks release at 14 to 16 point. At 18 point, Clearview Editions offers text that is measurably larger than every other major large-print publisher, specifically for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or any visual condition that makes standard trade print frustrating or impossible to read for long stretches. The trim size is equally generous. Clearview Editions is printed on a 7x10-inch page, substantially larger than the 6x9 hardcover that is standard in the large-print industry and roughly 50 percent larger by area than the 5x8 trade paperback trim most legacy large-print paperback imprints use. The extra page area is deliberate: it allows the 18-point body to set at the 50-to-55 character line length that reading-fatigue research identifies as optimal, without the narrow text columns and cramped margins that plague smaller-trim large-print books. Wide interior margins keep the binding from swallowing the gutter text and leave the thumb margins comfortable for older hands gripping a heavier hardcover. The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is justified with careful hyphenation tuning for a clean right margin without the distracting interword gaps of cheap large-print reprints, every page is protected against widowed and orphaned lines, and all illustrations are reproduced in 300-DPI grayscale on coated white text stock. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and a dedicated Begin Reading bookmark anchors the first chapter for readers using digital reading devices or reading software. Clearview Editions is an imprint of Nimble Books LLC, dedicated to bringing the canon of public-domain literature to low-vision readers and to anyone who has ever found standard trade-paperback print too small, too cramped, or too tiring for the kind of sustained reading a great book deserves. Clarity before ornament.

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