Carbon Costume childrens book
Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus
Ms. Valerie Frizzle (voiced by Lily Tomlin) is the eccentric teacher at the heart of the PBS animated series The Magic School Bus. Ms. Frizzle is loved by her students and known to often take them on incredible field trips with the help of the titular bus. Ms. Frizzle has frizzle ginger hair she wears in a messy bun and often dons boldly batterned dresses with matching shoes and accessories that tie in with her lesson plan. To create your costume, focus on bold funky prints that such as space or dinosaurs and pair them with thematic earrings and shoes. If you can’t find a collared dress, remember that you can layer a simpler dress over a blouse to achieve a similar look and that you can add pins or other accessories to simple shoes to make them look more appropriate. Complete your look with a wig and Liz Ard purse so you can take your trusty chameleon sidekick with you on your next field trip!
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh (aka Pooh Bear or just Pooh) is a good-natured, though sometimes absentminded yellow bear. Based on the character of A.A. Milne’s books, Pooh is stuffed teddy bear that belongs to Christopher Robin. He loves to eat honey, as indicated by his round belly. His usual phrase is “Oh Bother.” There’s a few ways to style an outfit inspired by this adorable character. You can lean more toward cosplay with the bear ears, wear the bucket hat for a “Disney-bound,” or get cozy in a onesie. This guide includes masculine and feminine options, but feel free to wear what feels comfortable for you!
Chloe the Topaz Fairy
Chloe the Topaz Fairy is the fourth fairy in the Jewel Fairies children books by Daisy Meadows. She teaches changing and transforming magic to the fairies of Fairyland so that they have the skills to change objects from one thing to another. Quick witted and determined, Chloe has blazing fast reflexes, which is important for transforming things. Her wand creates a brilliant beam of orange and gold sparkles. She is the first Black fairy in the series.
Hero Boy from The Polar Express
Hero Boy (also known as Chris and voiced by Daryl Sabara as a child and Tom Hanks as an adult) is the narrator of both the book and the movie The Polar Express. Though Chris is losing his faith in Christmas he is still holding out hope for the magic he once felt for the holiday. All it takes is a trip on the Polar Express to reignite the spark.
There are a couple of options when it comes to cosplaying Hero Boy. His yellow pajamas are a little hard to come by so you can either grab a pair of gold pajamas for men or a pair of yellow women’s pajamas. Both are fairly unisex in cut so it comes down to whichever would be more comfortable.
Throw on a blue robe and slip into a pair of brown leather loafers. Grab your ticket and you’re ready to ride The Polar Express!
Emily from Little Bear
In the summertime, Emily (voiced by Jennifer Martini) visits her grandmother’s home near the forest where Little Bear and his anthropomorphic animal friends live. There, they have a slew of adventures together, whether they’re going to the moon or contemplating the existence of mermaids. (“That’s the thing about mermaids … you never can tell!”) In the show, Emily is apparently seven years old, and dresses like a young girl from the early twentieth century. Recreating her outfit in contemporary adult women’s clothes can be, as Little Bear would say, “Iiiinteresting.”
Sister Bear from Berenstain Bears
Sister Bear is the second child of Mama Bear and Papa Bear. Great at outdoors activities, a natural in sports, and being highly competitive make Sister Bear the spunky young bear she is. She also likes fairy tales and the color pink. She is growing up while learning lessons about sharing and the golden rule in the Berenstain Bears.
Mona the Vampire
In Mona the Vampire, Mona Parker is characterized as a young, extremely cute and tomboyish yet unbearably beautiful 10-year-old girl with a vivid imagination. She believes her hometown is overrun with supernatural monsters or other creatures or entities and, as Mona the Vampire, plans to stop all of them and save her town on a daily basis.
Mona has fair skin, rosy cheeks, big green eyes, short light brown hair with two red ribbons tied into bows and wears a white dress shirt, red sweater, black mini-skirt, cream-colored panties, a matching camisole, white calf-high socks and brown loafers. As a vampire, she wears a black braided wig with red and yellow ribbons, a purple flower-patterned cape, brown knee pads and a black bow-tie.
Christopher Robin
In Christopher Robin, the titular character (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up now, far away from Hundred Acre Wood, with a family and a job as an efficiency expert. But when Winnie the Pooh awakens and is unable to find his friends like Piglet and Tigger, he winds up at Christopher’s door in London, causing a bit of chaos in search of honey.
Mr. Benn
Mr Benn is the title character of both the book and the television series. In each book/episode he visits a local fancy dress shop run by a guy only known as the Shopkeeper, picks a costume and uses a magic door to go on an adventure.
Mr Benn, a man wearing a black suit and bowler hat who never seems to go to work, leaves his house at 52 Festive Road and visits a fancy-dress costume shop where he is invited by the moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeeper to try on a particular outfit.
He leaves the shop through a magic door at the back of the changing room and enters a world appropriate to his costume, where he has an adventure (which usually contains a moral) before the shopkeeper re-appears to lead him back to the changing room, and the story comes to an end. Mr Benn returns to his normal life, but is left with a small souvenir of his magical adventure.
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw), who first appeared in a children’s book by Michael Bond, is an intelligent and friendly bear. Sent away from the deepest jungles of Peru, he is found at Paddington Station in London and taken in by the Brown family.
