9. Ida May stars in Julia Bowe's My Last Best Friend, My New Best Friend, and My Best Frenemy. (I would so want to be her friend, her best friend, you know, if she were real and I was a kid again.)
8. Zoe Elias stars in Linda Urban's A Crooked Kind of Perfect. This book was so perfect--so absolutely wonderful that I read it twice in one week!
7. Moxy Maxwell. I love Moxy, I do. My favorite Moxy is *probably* still her first adventure--the one where she is NOT going to read Stuart Little. (The first book was Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little. The second book was Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-You Notes. The third is Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano.)
6. Laura. As in Laura Ingalls. I loved this series growing up. Especially The Long Winter and These Happy Golden Years. Little House in the Big Woods; Little House on the Prairie; On the Banks of Plum Creek; By the Shores of Silver Lake; The Long Winter; Little Town on the Prairie; These Happy Golden Years; The First Four Years.
5. Clementine. I love, love, love Clementine. She's starred in four books now! Clementine (2006), The Talented Clementine (2007), Clementine's Letter (2008) and Clementine, Friend of the Week (2010). She has so much character. She's funny and insightful. She has a way of getting into trouble, but you can't help LOVING her anyway!
4. Julia Gillian. I loved discovering Julia Gillian this past year. I could really relate to her. True, she doesn't like to read. But. In so many ways, I can understand her, know her. She's starred in three adventures: Julia Gillian (And the Art of Knowing) and Julia Gillian (And the Quest for Joy, and Julia Gillian (And the Dream of the Dog).
3. Lucy Pevensie. From many of the adventures in The Chronicles of Narnia -- primarily, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I love so many things about Lucy. Her wonder, her innocence, her kindness.
2. Anne Shirley. The little girl Matthew meets at the train station, the "unwanted" orphan whom almost everyone in Avonlea finds irresistible, is such a kindred spirit. I love, love, love Anne. We meet her first at a vulnerable age. Then all too quickly, perhaps, she begins to grow up, to mature. Yes, Anne is still Anne. And she's still a kindred spirit. But I can't help loving this earlier Anne the very best of all. Anne of Green Gables.
© Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews
5 comments:
This list is interesting! I've just known Anne and Laura and like you, I love the little Anne so much. I'll try to find out about other characters too (reading all this list is a little difficult for me since English is not my mother language and finding these books in my place is nearly impossible *sigh*).
Anyway, thank you for great recommendations =)
I don't know all these books, but Anne, Laura, Lucy and Ramona are all fantastic characters.
Interesting how I know only a few of your favorites, but Laura and Anne are definitely top of my list of heroines. Also interesting how many people list Hard Winter as one of their favorite LH books, while I rank it definitely at the bottom when it comes to rereading.
Enjoyed reading about your literary heroines.
I love this authors so much.. Anne, Lucy and Ramona are names of my siblings haha
You know, I've dismissed Julia Gillian as trivial. But maybe I need to reconsider that.
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