Where are your favourite children's characters 30 years on?
11th October 2018
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In October 1988, the world was first introduced to one of the most famous fictional bookworms of all time: Roald Dahl's super smart telekinetic Matilda, who used her powers to right the wrongs committed by adults.
In celebration of this special anniversary, Quentin Blake, Dahl's longtime illustrator, has redesigned the covers of Matilda, imagining what she would be doing now. We at TNS thought this was a great idea, so to celebrate, we're going to share what we think our favourite children's book characters would be doing as adults. We haven't included Harry Potter, as characters' lives as adults are involved in the literary canon.
1. The Baudelaire Orphans-A Series of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snicket Hopefully, Violet, Klaus and Sunny manage to make it to adulthood and misery finally stopped following them around. Violet would finally get the Baudelaire fortune, and split it amongst her siblings. They wouldn't need the money, but they would still want things to do: Violet would become a famous inventor, Klaus would become a researcher and spend his days reading and Sunny would become a chef and make fabulous meals for everyone. They would all still be together, raising their adoptive daughter Kit. 2. Fern-Charlotte's Web-EB White I imagine that as a grown up, Fern would probably end up running her parents' farm as she would want a job where she was around animals all the time, and even as an adult, she would still enjoy her quality time talking to the animals. 3. Jo, Fanny and Bessie-The Faraway Tree-Enid Blyton I like to think that 30 years on, the three of them would still be having adventures, albeit probably not of the magical tree climbing kind. They still have a love for adventure, although now of more conventional kinds, Jo would be a pilot, Fanny would travel the world teaching and Bessie would be a travel writer. All of them would still get together for crazy adventures now and then, and go visit their friends up the Faraway Tree, who haven't aged a day! 4. Percy Jackson-Percy Jackson series-Rick Riordan Hopefully 30 years on from the events of the series, Percy will finally have the chance to have a rest, he deserves it! He and Annabeth would be married and living together in the Big House at Camp Half-Blood, with their children, training the newest generation of demigods.

1. The Baudelaire Orphans-A Series of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snicket Hopefully, Violet, Klaus and Sunny manage to make it to adulthood and misery finally stopped following them around. Violet would finally get the Baudelaire fortune, and split it amongst her siblings. They wouldn't need the money, but they would still want things to do: Violet would become a famous inventor, Klaus would become a researcher and spend his days reading and Sunny would become a chef and make fabulous meals for everyone. They would all still be together, raising their adoptive daughter Kit. 2. Fern-Charlotte's Web-EB White I imagine that as a grown up, Fern would probably end up running her parents' farm as she would want a job where she was around animals all the time, and even as an adult, she would still enjoy her quality time talking to the animals. 3. Jo, Fanny and Bessie-The Faraway Tree-Enid Blyton I like to think that 30 years on, the three of them would still be having adventures, albeit probably not of the magical tree climbing kind. They still have a love for adventure, although now of more conventional kinds, Jo would be a pilot, Fanny would travel the world teaching and Bessie would be a travel writer. All of them would still get together for crazy adventures now and then, and go visit their friends up the Faraway Tree, who haven't aged a day! 4. Percy Jackson-Percy Jackson series-Rick Riordan Hopefully 30 years on from the events of the series, Percy will finally have the chance to have a rest, he deserves it! He and Annabeth would be married and living together in the Big House at Camp Half-Blood, with their children, training the newest generation of demigods.
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