Name AliceBorn 1896Defining moment "Alice was considering whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit ran close by her."Why we love Alice* She's feisty, opinionated, and very, very cur...

and Paranorman. More mild mayhem than morbid macabre, this is essentially a coming of age movie for little Bat girl, Mavis, daughter of Dracula (voiced charmingly by Selena Gomez) who turns 118 and yearns to see the world – or at least venture into the local

suspect the town dwellers sort of deserve their fate!): can the antihero triumph? From the makers of Coraline, this stop-motion animation has a similarly spooky, off-beat appeal to the movie about the girl with the button eyes (and some hair-raisingly hide

have to buy the air – O’Hare Air – they breathe in bottles. One young girl, Audrey (voiced by Taylor Swift) dreams about having a real tree “that smells like butterfly milk”, and young Ted, the boy next door with a megacrush (Zac Ephron), sets off

was happy to nibble at the chicken and frijoles (creamy black beans). We’d let slip that we had a birthday girl among us, so the waiter arrived with churros and chocolate sauce, singing “Happy birthday”, which suitably embarrassed the 16-year-old, followed

’s collections. For little girls, there is twill silk, brocades, silk, chiffon, cashmere crochet, lace, prints and tweed, with linings made of crêpe de Chine. Among the prints, we have not forgotten our signature leopard print, using it to make mini garments

, revelling in the bold and brave designs that defined the era. “As a little girl, I was mesmerised by patterns,” she says. “I would find myself visually tracing the undulating swirls on the wallpaper in my bedroom, scrutinising them to discover where