KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Possibly the most famous Newfoundland in English literature is Nana in Peter Pan, the creation of J.M. Barries (1860-1936).

Detailed explanation-2: -Nana is a brown Newfoundland dog, a St. Bernard and the minor protagonist who appears in Disney’s 1953 animated film Peter Pan. Nana is a nursemaid who help the Darling children to tuck their beds before Mr. and Mrs. Darling going to party.

Detailed explanation-3: -No story of Peter Pan would be complete without a large, lovable dog named Nana. In Hook, Nana is played by an English Sheepdog.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the original James Barrie book, the Darling family was considered poor so the children’s “nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her."

Detailed explanation-5: -The “tonic” given to the children by Nana may have been morphine. It was quite common in the early 20th century to give children “soothing syrups” and “tonics” to control their behavior. These concoctions turned out to consist of several different narcotics.