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Positive representations of one-child families

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SallyCinnamonandNutmeg · 26/02/2013 13:30

Sometimes it seems as if the "norm" of 2-children families is all I see/read about...so I thought I would start a thread listing one-child families in books/on TV/in films etc ...can anyone add some more??

  • Little Princess (books/TV)
  • Tilly from Tilly & Friends (books/TV)
  • Daisy (in Kes Gray series of books - also a one-parent family as far as I can tell)
  • Milly-Molly-Mandy
  • Christopher Robin
  • Sainsburys Bare Necessities advert with dad & little boy playing on beach
  • Weetabix Golden Syrup advert with dad & little boy having day out
(please ignore possibly slightly sexist nature of above 2 ads!)

Any more??? Smile

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SunshineAndPeardrops · 21/06/2013 11:53

Angela and Charlie from the My Best Fiend series, by Sheila Lavelle, are both onlies. I was desperate to be Angela when I was little!

Ursula, from The Ursula Bear series, again, by Sheila Lavelle

Arriety from The Borrowers is an only (in the books at least).

Lucie in Mrs Tiggy-Winkle.

Plop, The Barn Owl!! I am fairly sure he didn't have any brothers and sisters anyway.

Takver · 25/06/2013 17:13

A few more to add:

Neither Frodo nor Bilbo Baggins has siblings AFAIK
Rosemary in the Carbonel books
At least Diggory Kirk, Polly Plummer, Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb in the Narnia books and possibly others (of course Eustace isn't really a great role model)

There are absolutely loads of only children in fiction, I think!

Snog · 07/09/2013 18:14

all the roald dahl characters iirc
mathilda
charlie
danny
james
et al

LalaLeona · 31/10/2013 20:53

'The only child club' by Anne Fine is a great one, my only dd6 just got it out of the library and loved it. I thought of all you guys on this forum, and have been trying to tell people about it..v good x

bluebeanie · 01/11/2013 09:34

The recent Natwest mortgage advert with a couple living with their parents to save up for a deposit and then they move into their house and have a baby (said child is narrating). There is also a Holiday Inn advert advertising free breakfasts. There's a family of 3 on that too. Grin

happy2help · 04/11/2013 20:25

Don't know about Woolly and Tig - what channel is this on, please?

Scout19075 · 07/11/2013 17:38

happy, Wooly and Tig is on Cbeebies.

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