I’m working on my dissertation at present and am discussing the representation of Gifted and Talented Children in children’s literature. Following both a plea on Twitter (thanks Tweeps!) and Mailing Lists (thanks, er, Meeps?), I now have a fairly healthy list of G+T characters / titles which I thought I’d share. Anybody else you think should be on there? Let me know! (EDIT 25/03/2013: This list is now available here where you can edit / amend as necessary)
- Ann Pilling’s “The Big Pink”
- Lorna Hill’s Sadlers Well’s series – Sebastian (music) , Veronica, Caroline, Rosita etc etc (all dance)
- KM Peyton’s Pennington (music) – various titles
- Anne Digby’s Trebizon – Rebecca Mason (tennis)
- Tol the Swimmer by Sidney Hedges
- Constance M White
- Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers – Amanda (sport) Irene (music) Belinda (art)
- The Janis Project by Nancy Rue
- The Runner by Cynthia Voigt
- Drina Ballerina
- Elinor M Brent Dyer – Kat Gordon, Margia Stevens, Jacynth Hardy, Gay Lambert
- Coram Boy – Alexander
- Piggy from Lord of the Flies
- She Shall Have Music by Kitty Barnes
- The Marlows books by Antonia Forest
- Mina from David Almond’s “Skellig”
- A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- Artemis Fowl
- Ender’s Game
- Christopher from the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- Elfrida Vipont’s Lark in the Morn books.
- Bagthorpes
- L’Engle, A Severed Wasp
- The Servants of Arakesh
- Elizabeth Bernard (Satin Slippers)
- Hermione Granger
- Mildred Lancaster from Angela Brazil’s “The Girls of St Cyprians”
- The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff (child violinist)
- The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg (intellectually gifted children)
- The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels by Anna Fienberg (stories about
children with remarkable talents) - Clair de Lune by Cassandra Golds (ballet)
- The “Evil Genius” books by Catherine Jinks (criminal mastermind turns good)
- Making the Most of It by Lisa Forrest (swimming)
- The Samurai Kids books by Sandy Fussell
- Born to Bake by Phillip Gwynne (cooking)
- Getting Somewhere by Jenny Pausacker (maths)
- The “Alex” books by Tessa Duder (swimming)
- Casson family children in Hilary McKay’s novels (Saffy’s Angel etc)
- Louise Fitzhugh’s ‘Nobody’s Family is Going to Change’
- Jean Ure has a number of books about gifted young dancers: ‘Hi There Supermouse’; ‘Nicola Mimosa; ‘A Proper Little Nooryeff’; ‘Dazzling Danny’.
- L M Montgomery’s ‘Emily’
- Jane Gardam’s ‘A Long Way from Verona’.
- Tim Kennemore’s ‘The Fortunate Few
- Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman series
- Pamela Brown’s books, ‘Swish of the Curtain’ and sequels
- ‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Robyn Bavati
- Jean Richardson’s Moth books (dance)
Daisy May Johnson 
Does Hermione Granger count as Gifted & Talented? I’d have thought so.
And she’s on. Thanks!