A 'Someone Else's Homework' Question

But it has James and I stumped.  Can you think of any children's books with ONLY female characters?  We couldn't and the student couldn't.

Angelina Ballerina?

There are plenty of children's books with strong female characters; I expect some of those listed on this site may not have any males in

http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/strongfemales/a/strongfemales.htm

Although is it such a good idea?

They're comparing it to 'Wind in the Willows' which is all male characters.  We could come up with strong female characters -but all the ones we thought of also had a central male character. 

How young are we talking?

What about some Judy Blume books? Are there a few with mainly female characters? Or, you could look to fairytales (Cinderella, etc)--some of the versions of those stories have side-characters that are male but most of the main characters are female.

Or, Little Women?

One of my faves when I was a youngin' was the Babysitter's Club.... however I think later on in the series they did have a male character, have to be PC and all....

The Madeline books?

This is a really interesting question. I believe The Lord of the Flies is all-male as well. And I can't think of one with just female characters off the top of my head, but I think The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch might qualify. My copy is still packed away somewhere, so I can't check.

The Madeline books?

There's the doctor, the board of directors and the little boy.

It's really hard.

What about Nancy Drew?

P.S. Lord of the Flies as a children's book - that's some dark childhood.

I don't know how old you were when you read it, but it was required reading for me in school at about age 13. I define that as childhood.

The Ramona books? I can't recall if there are strong boys in there, too, or not.

The Ramona books? I can't recall if there are strong boys in there, too, or not.

Yeah, her dad is a pretty strong character.

a) It was a joke.

b) By that logic Shakespeare was a children's author.

a) It wasn't funny.

b) Shakespeare is for all ages so, yes, he was a children's author.

Enid Blyton's St Clare's series? I can't remember if any dads or other males were in those. Or Elinor M. Brent Dyer's Chalet Girls series? There must one ONE  in the series at least that has no males!

b) Shakespeare is for all ages so, yes, he was a children's author.

I agree! I was 11 when I saw my first Shakespeare play.