Top Ten Tuesday - Top Ten Childhood Characters You'd Like to Revisit as an Adult

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Childhood Characters You'd Like to Revisit as an Adult - meaning characters who were children that I'd like to see as adults.  This was one of those topics that I thought was going to be really hard but once I started thinking about it I could've easily had a top 20!

1.  The Melendys from Elizabeth Enright's The Four Story Mistake and others - I have no idea how many times I read this book as a child but it was definitely one of my favorites.  I'd love to know what Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver are doing now.  Did Mona continue on her path to fame?  What did the rest end up doing?  Do they still have the Four Story Mistake?

2.  Rilla Blythe from Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery - When we leave her Rilla has become a young woman and survived triumph and tragedy on the homefront during World War 1.  She's grown up quite a bit from the shallow vain girl she was at the beginning.  I'd love to know what happens next.  How does World War II affect her?

3.  Nancy Drew - Nancy Drew isn't a child when we know her but I want to know what Nancy is doing at 40.  Is she a private detective?  A lawyer like her dad?  The neighborhood gossip?  Has she had enough saving the world and is now spending her days in sweat pants and making fun of TV detectives for being idiots?  Did she marry Ned?  So many questions!

4.  Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden - I'd love to read a novella about Mary as an adult.  What did she end up doing?  What happened to the garden?  I'm not sure I want a full length book but I'd love to check in.

5.  Charles Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time - This may actually exist since I just recently found out that A Wrinkle in Time was the beginning of a series but the first book is all I've read and it was one of my favorites.  I've always wondered what happened to Charles Wallace.

6.  The members of The Babysitter's Club - I loved these books!  I can't remember how far I got into them before I grew out of them but I read them all for awhile.  I was surprised a few years ago when I saw one of the later books in the series by how many people were in the club and how many names I didn't know.  I'm talking about the ORIGINAL members and Dawn.  What happened to them?  Is Kristy running the world?  Is Claudia an artist?  Did they stay friends?

7.  The children from The Story-Girl - The Story Girl is probably my favorite L.M. Montgomery book.  The King children are so vivid and entertaining.  If you watched the Disney channel show Avonlea this is the book the series was based off of.  We do get hints as to what happens when the children become adults throughout this book and the next one but I'd love to see them together.

8.  Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - This is another one that actually might exist.  Somehow I missed the fact that this was a book until not too long ago and then gobbled this up in one sitting last year.  I know there's at least one Charlie book out there but haven't take the time to find out more about it.  

9.  Julian and Portia from Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright - I didn't actually read this book as a child but I absolutely wish I had.  I would've have adored it.  There's a whole community of abandoned lake houses and the children get the run of them.  There is a sequel to Gone Away that is not as good but is so what I wanted it to be that it feels self-indulgent but I'd love to see what the children are like as adults and if they still have ties to Gone Away Lake.

10. Max from Where the Wild Things Are - Does Max really learn his lesson and keep from gnashing his teeth and growling at his mother forever?  Does he ever wish he could go back to Where the Wild Things Are?

What childhood characters would you like to revisit?