After a while, it can really make you hate specific shows and even develop intense grudges toward their characters, who are usually children themselves. This is why your parents are crazy.

These children's book characters inspired us to be brave, to be brilliant and, in short, to be better people... Do you have your own favourite children's book character that we've missed?

And this is the first kids' animated character to directly identify themselves ... a recent push to include more queer representation in children's animated shows and movies.