Tinker Bell was the notion of Scottish author Sir James Matthew Barrie. The fairy first appeared in Barrie’s 1904 play, “Peter Pan” or “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” and then the 1911 novel, “Peter and Wendy.” This small fairy living in Netherland had a crush on Peter Pan and was jealous of any girls around him including Wendy. Perhaps Tinker Bell’s sprinkling of pixie dust made Walt Disney’s animated film “Peter Pan” a success when released in 1953.
