Jane Read

Jane Read
Main Character
Gender	Female
Animal	Aardvark
Portrayed by	Sonja Ball
First appeared	"Arthur's Eyes"
Family	David Read (husband) Arthur Read (son) D.W. Read (daughter) Kate Read (daughter) Dave (father)

Jane Read is Arthur and D.W.'s mother who is accountant for Ed Crosswire. She wants the best for her three children but sometimes embarasses them. She is married to David Read. Her dad is Grandpa Dave. She has two sisters named Jessica and Lucy who appear in "D.W. Thinks Big and a brother named Fred who appears in Arthur's Perfect Christmas. She is voiced by Sonja Ball.

Appearance

Jane Read is depicted with shaggy brown hair and wears a pink sweater over a white shirt, blue jeans, and white shoes with blue bottoms. Originally, she had a long snout and was based upon an actual aardvark with the rest of her family in Arthur's Nose. She and the other aardvarks were redesigned in Arthur's Eyes that was published three years later. In the '80s, she and the other aardvarks had their snouts gradually shortened until it became flat. In the early books before the cartoon, she wore different clothes of different colors.