A Baby Bird and Names from Children's Literature

This Christmas ornament can be personalized with names and dates -- found at This Fine Day.

Elizabeth Bird over at A Fuse #8 Production has just announced she is brooding... I mean, pregnant. With a baby Bird. Congratulations, Betsy! Betsy is a children's librarian at the New York Public Library and a published author herself in addition to being a master (mistress?) of the blogging universe so her child is unlikely ever to run out of great reading material. No backs of cereal boxes or tubes of toothpaste for him or her. (That is, I am sure he or she will eat cereal now and then, and certainly he or she will learn to brush the teeth he or she will one day have, but he or she won't have to rely on the text on household objects for diversion when all the books are finished.) (Wow, my fingers just cramped. I'd really like to know the sex of this baby.)

Elizabeth has dropped a few hints in the comments section of her announcement about possible names. While she says her chosen name for a girl is not really a literary one, specifically, I am intrigued by her remark on the name for a boy: "One is perhaps the most iconic male name in children’s literary history."

Hmm. Whatever can it be? Max for Max of Where the Wild Things Are? Charlie for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Jack for Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack Be Nimble and Little Jack Horner? Prince for all those Prince Charmings? I can't wait to find out. Perhaps we should start a betting pool.

(By the way, if you haven't one already, Betsy, I am going to send you the cloth version of Are You My Mother? It's always been a big hit around here.)

Comments

[sara]

Oh, that is a perfect gift!
Iconic male name from children's lit? Well, I do know that Gordon Lish named his son Atticus.

[Erin]

I immediately thought of Huck. :)

[kittenpie]

Fauntleroy! Okay, I joke. Jack would work, yes. Or Tom (Sawyer, piper's son)? George (Curious, Georgie Porgy)?
I almost went with Max myself, that is a good one.

[Fuse #8]

I love the idea of naming my boy Prince Bird. But no, that's not the name (and the baby in my tummy gives a nearly inaudible sigh of relief).

Thanks for the good cheer! And a cloth Are You My Mother I do not own. What an excellent notion. I'm honored.

[Genevieve]

Charlie and Max were my guesses, and I think Max is probably more iconic. I also thought of Harold.