The Wizard of Oz Archive Cool Girls Don’t Wear Dresses: Being One of the Boys in Classic Children’s Books Author: Christine Ro | Aug282016 Categories: Reading No comments Seminal children’s books are littered with girls who are defiantly un-girly. Just a few of the many examples are Harriet the Spy, who wears a toolbelt stuffed with spy supplies and Pippi Longstocking, the rowdy orphan with the strength of Popeye.