The concept of character has two uses in children’s literature discourse. One use belongs to literary criticism, as the critic and reader observe the people in a story or novel as “characters,” that is, as agents or actors (Burke 1973) whose actions move a story through time. The other use refers to the moral qualities of a person. These uses of “character” are related, as the root of the English word lies in a Greek word for a tool used to mark or engrave a material (_Oxford English Dictionary_ [_OED_]). By the seventeenth century, the English word came to mean both “the individuality impressed by nature and habit on man or nation; mental or moral constitution” and a “personality invested with distinctive attributes and qualities, by a novelist or dramatist” (_OED_). In his 1927 lectures later published as _Aspects of the Novel_, E. M. Forster distinguished “flat” from “round” characters, the former being relatively simple and predictable in their thoughts and actions, such as the Wolf in the Grimms’ “Little Red Riding Hood” (1812) or the title character of _The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes_ (1765). The latter kind, such as Anne in L. M. Montgomery’s _Anne of Green Gables_...