Re: Fictional or real character nearly all 11-year-olds will know a bit about?


D.M. Procida wrote:
Brian Reay <see@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd like to use the character to illustrate a wide selection of
relationships that a person might have with others, so they need to have
a decent selection of family/friends/teachers/mortal enemies/etc.

Tracy Beaker, although ( as I recall) she is an orphan and is waiting
fostering.

I must get round to reading Tracey Beaker; my children like the author.

Nearly all children in children's fiction are either orphans or
pseudo-orphans (i.e. sent away to school, kidnapped, have
absent/ill/insignificant parents):

The Baudelaire orphans
Harry Potter
Artemis Fowl
every child in a boarding-school setting
and so on <insert hand-waving gesture>

How can a child get to do anything worth writing a book about if its
parents are hovering over its shoulder getting it out of trouble all the
time?

Daniele

Johnny Briggs stories are good for family stuff, and pets etc.

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