I’ve received some interesting votes…Max, from Mrs. Madison’s 5th grade class, likes Sunny from A Series of Unfortunate Events because he likes babies and things with overbites.  A student from Enterprise Middle School nominated Gwydon from Wolfproof.  To Kill A Mockingbird’s Scout Finch was mentioned twice, and there was a vote for Lucy Pevinse of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

It’s not too late to add a character. Don’t be shy.

And Sophie, also from Mrs. Madison’s class, adds: “My favorite charater is Rose from the book East. I like Rose because she is shy and has a very strong personality.”

Last week several readers talked to me, just liked I hope they would, about their favorite character from WP. So far, Sarah is in the lead. It got me thinking about characters we love. Long after the last page is closed, certain characters continue to inhabit our minds and hearts.

I thought about characters I’ve loved. When I was growing up, somewhere between 4^th grade and high school, I fell in love with the March sisters: Amy, Beth, Meg and Jo. Does anyone read Little Women anymore? Jo was my favorite, the apple- eating, short –tempered, would -be -writer who was always getting into to scrapes, but I loved all of them. They were like the sisters I never had. Dorothy Sayer’s Harriet Vane probably tops my list of favorite female characters. Cassandra Mortmain of I Captured the Castle stays with me too. And of course, there’s Peter Whimsy himself, Sherlock Holmes and George R.R. Martin’s, Jon Snow.

When I asked my daughter she mentioned, Sydney Carton, Isabelle Archer and Dorothy Dunnet’s Lymond. I know my son would include Orson Scott Card’s, Ender.

Now it’s your chance. Send me the name of a character who has captured your imagination and why. I’ll add to the blog.

Okay, this review got me so excited that I had to post it:

“Wolfproof” is especially recommended for school and community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections., November 5, 2006

Enhanced with thirteen black-and-white illustrations by John Murphy, award winning poet, author and teacher Maureen McQuerry’s “Woolfproof” is the story of Timothy James, Sarah and Jessica, three ordinary middle school children who, with the assistance of a mysterious old woman and a magical wolf, find themselves battling with an ancient one-eyed evil from the world of Celtic mythology and the legend of the Wild Hunt. This adventure fantasy for young readers is a superbly crafted entertainment that will engage the attention of children from beginning to end. “Wolfproof” is especially recommended for school and community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections.

For those of you interested in how Wolfproof came to be, check out Backstory :http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/backstory/ on Nov.9th. Wolfproof will be the feature story of the day.

Backstory asks authors to share the story behind their novel. Check out your favorite authors! ”Where authors share their secrets, truths, logical and illogical moments that sparked their fiction.”

Some of my friends at Chief Jo Middle School in Richland, WA were eager to hear about Wolfproof and how authors work. They were also eager to have themselves represented on the website. What a good looking bunch of readers!