![]() Little Lulu: Working Girl by John Stanley is published by Drawn & Quarterly (£18.99). I fixed the opening so the Little Lulu theme is no. If you like Charles Schulz and Roald Dahl – and really, who doesn’t? – then this gorgeously produced and very funny book is for you. Most of the copies of this cartoons floating around on YouTube are in pretty poor shape. Most of all, though, I like the yawning gap that exists between children and adults in these strips: they’re pro-child in the best sense, always pitting the open, curious minds of small people against the jaded, rigid outlook of those adults who try (and fail) to marshal them. There’s something intensely pleasurable, too, in the way that Stanley uses phonetic spellings and mangled pronunciations for comic effect (“Dear diry, I felt terrible bad in my stummik”) at moments, it made me think of Molesworth. ![]() With her pithy put-downs and her easy way with half-truths, it’s impossible not to warm to Little Lulu, though I like Tubby as well, a boy who will stop at almost nothing in order to bag himself a second dinner. The Mascot The Fellers trade Alvin to the West Side gang for a. Sometimes, Annie is annoyed without any reason. The Little Pioneer Lulu tells Alvin about a little girl whose parents were captured by Indians. Annie is not as smart as her friend is, but she is a good friend and helps out. She was voiced by Michael Caloz and later Vanessa Lengies. She is also the main character in Little Lulu. When Alvin, the bratty six-year-old she is sometimes required to babysit, has one of his temper tantrums, only Lulu can shut him up, a silence she wins by telling him elaborate stories (Lulu’s way with narrative is one of the things that drew the young Atwood to her). Annie Inch is Lulu Moppets best friend and is involved in most of Lulu Moppets escapades and the adventures. When she falls out with her best friend, Tubby, it’s always he who ends up eating humble pie. I reach over, take her hands, and get her to do 'patty cake' with me Little Lulu, Little Lulu With freckles on your skin Always in and out of trouble. ![]() Those who like to think of the 50s as a time when women and children were seen rather than heard are in for a surprise in the case of the pugnacious and endlessly resourceful Lulu, whose voice is almost permanently raised and whose raison d’etre is basically to show the boys that girls are just as good as they are. A page from Little Lulu: Working Girl by John Stanley. Little Lulu is the nickname for Lulu Moppett, a comic strip character created in the mid-1930s by Marjorie Henderson Buell.
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