7. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

This is a prequel to Peter Pan, the third of five books in a trilogy (yes, you read that right). The story reveals how Peter came to be orphaned and how it is that no one ever ages on the island where Peter and the lost boys live. It also has Hook in a temporarily heroic position and shows how the crocodile swallowed the clock. Though Dave Barry is one of the authors, the book doesn't have his usual humor, so I think Ridley Pearson was the main author -- although one scene definitely shows Barry's influence, where a camel, given the ability to fly via starstuff, helps defeat the bad guys by doing its business all over them.


"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland