Child characters in literature

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

main character of the book, film and video game series of the same name

European fairy tale (ATU 333)

fictional character from the Harry Potter stories

fictional character of Harry Potter series

fictional character created by J. M. Barrie

Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a poor man named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. He is created as a wooden puppet, but he dreams of becoming a real boy. He is known for his long nose, which grows when he lies.

fictional character by Sanrio

fictional character created by Astrid Lindgren

fictional character of the Harry Potter series

literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

fictional character in the Harry Potter universe

1981 novel by Astrid Lindgren

1878 novel by Jules Verne

Der Struwwelpeter ("Shock-Headed Peter") is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by the German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other (on the basis of Marwar king Rao Sihaji) characters.

title character of the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

fictional character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

fictional girl and woman, protagonist of the eponymous series, introduced 1908

fictional character from A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional boy and demigod, protagonist of series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional English boy, a lead character in the first three Narnia books

fictional character in Astrid Lindgren's books

picture story by Wilhelm Busch

fictional English girl, a lead character in the first two Narnia books

fictional English girl, a lead character in the first three Narnia books

children's book series by René Goscinny

fictional English boy, a lead character in the first two Narnia books

fictional character of the Harry Potter series

wizard in the Harry Potter universe

Grimm fairy tale

fictional character in a juvenile mystery series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate publisher under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene

fictional detectives and book series

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

fictional character

fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum

Karlsson-on-the-Roof () is a character who features in a series of children's books by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Lindgren may have borrowed the idea for the series from a similar story about Mr. O'Malley in the comic strip Barnaby (1942) by Crockett Johnson.

Miffy (, pronounced ) is a fictional rabbit appearing in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. The original Dutch name, nijntje, is a shortening of the diminutive konijntje, "little rabbit" because Dick Bruna's son wasn't able to pronounce konijntje.

character from 2016 film 'Rogue One'

Buratino () is the main character of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1936 fairy tale The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Buratino, which is based on the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Buratino originated as a character in the commedia dell'arte. The name Buratino derives from the Italian burattino, which means "wooden puppet" or "doll". The book was published in 1936; the figure of Buratino quickly became hugely popular among children in the Soviet Union and remains so in Russia to this day (Buratino is one of the most popular characters of Russian children's

fictional character from Harry Potter

series of children's books by Astrid Lindgren

Gavroche () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child. Gavroche plays a short yet significant role in the many adaptations of Les Misérables, sharing the populist ideology of the Friends of the ABC and joining the revolutionaries in the June 1832 rebellion. He figures in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th parts of the novel.

Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as Ursule, Lark, or Mademoiselle Lanoire.

1843 short story by Hans Christian Andersen

fictional boy, a lead character in The Chronicles of Narnia, books 3 and 4

character created by J.M. Barrie

fictional character created by A. A. Milne

animated television series

fictional character from The Chronicles of Narnia

fictional character in The Chronicles of Narnia

Roo is a fictional character created in 1926 by A. A. Milne and first featured in the book Winnie-the-Pooh. He is a young kangaroo (known as a joey) and his mother is Kanga. Like most other Pooh characters, Roo is based on a stuffed toy animal that belonged to Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne. However, he was lost in the 1930s in an apple orchard somewhere in Sussex.

character in the Moomin series

fictional character from Treasure Island

novel by Lisa Tetzner

His Dark Materials character

fictional girl, second lead character in The Magician's Nephew (Narnia, book 6)

1899 book