Cosgrove, however, takes pains to cast her own child protagonist, Jam, in a more realistic vein.
He was the first child protagonist in an English language novel.
While Baum's child protagonists tended to be little girls, Thompson's were boys.
One of the hallmarks of Iranian cinema in the last 15 years or so has been child protagonists.
The child protagonists often whisper of her ghostly ability to pull people to "the other side".
At age nine, he was selected by a film studio to play the child protagonist in a movie.
The child protagonist would realise this, but get on with the adventure anyway.
They placed child protagonists in extremely difficult circumstances, such as poverty and wartime.
Many of her works feature strong female characters, and child protagonists figure prominently into her work.
The show's child protagonists meet digital monsters, or digimon, from this world and becomes partners and friends.