books (and movies) with strong female characters for 4-7 year olds.

[AnyDream]

Well, I killed it there by dissin' on Trixie!

This thread has been bugging me - mostly because I *know* that I read heaps of books when I was younger that had awesome females in them - and especially because some of the most enduring female authors were women who stood outside of the normative values of the day themselves. But can I remember them? No! Mind you, I don't remember too many of the male lead characters in the hundreds of books I've read, either, so it might be more about my memory and less about the books.

But - this one: Charlotte's Web.

[meow]

The Paperbag Princess still just makes this age range.
I loved the Ramona books from about 7.
I also loved "The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales" but it's out of print now. You can get second hand copies though and they're worth it if you have someone into princess stories/fairy tales.

Some favourite movies I remember were
Mary Poppins- the submission of the wife is the one grey area in this movie but I did learn what the suffragette was movement from her!
Annie
The Parent Trap- the old original one, not sure what the remake is like but the girls were very savvy in the first one

[nothing2lose]

I loved Ramona too!