7/4/2023 0 Comments Anastasia krupnik book series![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine her as Roz Chast or Nora Ephron as a fifth-grader. Obviously, The Giver and Number the Stars are the books for which Lowry’s most widely known at this point, but for a certain sort of neurotic child who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Anastasia was an important literary heroine. Anastasia was both very outspoken and (at times) deeply introspective she had a distaste for liver as well as a crush on Laurence Olivier. The protagonist of Lowry’s nine-book series (the first, Anastasia Krupnik, came out in 1979, the ninth, Anastasia Absolutely, in 1995) lived in a Boston suburb with her painter mother, Harvard poetry-professor father, pesky younger brother, and goldfish named Frank. Before there was Daria, before there were Liz Lemon’s flashbacks to young Liz Lemon, there was Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik, a brassy Jewish 10-year-old with brown hair, glasses, and a little pink wart on her finger. ![]()
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