![]() ![]() This might sound pretentious, but they’re made in an offhand way, with sitcom-like humor. ![]() In contrast, Anastasia’s parents support her unconditionally while bantering casually.Īnastasia, her artist mom, and Harvard professor dad make cultural references that expanded my knowledge and vocabulary. Madeleine L’Engle’s loving families talk to each other in a way that I found oddly formal. She, her little brother Sam, and her quirky parents were by far the most similar characters to my family that I’d ever found. I related deeply to Anastasia, a bookish, inquisitive, and dramatic girl. ![]() In the late ‘90s, I discovered Lois Lowry’s middle grade Anastasia Krupnik books in my elementary school library and immediately had to read the whole series. ![]()
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