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A Little Princess
Throughout her long and successful career, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a reputation for delighting readers with stories about people whose desperate situations always seemed to improve by the last chapter. This charming piece of fiction, first published nearly a century ago — and more recently the basis of an acclaimed motion picture — follows that pattern.
Its young heroine, Sara Crewe, falls upon hard times at an English boarding school when her father suddenly dies. Left penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress, Sara manages — despite a multitude of adversities — to maintain her optimistic outlook and usual goodness, qualities that do not go unnoticed by a mysterious benefactor who eventually transforms her life.
Set in large, easy-to-read type and newly illustrated by artist Thea Kliros, A Little Princess will captivate romantics of all ages as it tells the riches-to-rags-to-riches tale of a winsome young miss.
Its young heroine, Sara Crewe, falls upon hard times at an English boarding school when her father suddenly dies. Left penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress, Sara manages — despite a multitude of adversities — to maintain her optimistic outlook and usual goodness, qualities that do not go unnoticed by a mysterious benefactor who eventually transforms her life.
Set in large, easy-to-read type and newly illustrated by artist Thea Kliros, A Little Princess will captivate romantics of all ages as it tells the riches-to-rags-to-riches tale of a winsome young miss.
- GenresFiction
96 pages, Paperback
Published February 29, 2012
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About the author
Bob Blaisdell
176 books23 followersBob Blaisdell is a published adapter, author, editor, and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. He teaches English in Brooklyn at Kingsborough Community College. He is a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor and the editor of more than three dozen anthologies for Dover Publications. Email him at Robert.Blaisdell@Kingsborough.edu
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December 5, 2024
Again, I actually read this story as an abridged Turkish-English side by side book. But honestly, it was my first time reading the story and it was so good. I want to raise daughters like Sara who care so well for others.
December 10, 2016
Great stoty!
May 7, 2010
I recently decided I was going to re-read some of my favourite children's books. For me, Frances Hodgson Burnett is the best of her genre.
A Little Princess, like her other novels such as The Secret Garden or Little Lord Fauntleroy, conjures up a truly magical world. The Victorian age has always held a special charm for me, it seems the most romantic of ages and the time that I would most like to have been a child. A Little Princess evokes that feeling; from the lavish descriptions of Sara's clothes and gifts from her father to the children of the family next door, this novel is unbeatable in transporting you to the world of a privileged child in Victorian times.
Yet despite the romantic overtones, this book is not a happy fairytale. There are some real moments of sadness that one doesn't expect from a children's book and as the story progresses you are given an insight into the lives of those less fortunate.
Somehow, Burnett manages to combine the realistic side of Victorian life with the ideal, leaving you with a strange sensation that this isn't really a children's novel; it is a book that should be read and re-read by anyone of any age.
A Little Princess, like her other novels such as The Secret Garden or Little Lord Fauntleroy, conjures up a truly magical world. The Victorian age has always held a special charm for me, it seems the most romantic of ages and the time that I would most like to have been a child. A Little Princess evokes that feeling; from the lavish descriptions of Sara's clothes and gifts from her father to the children of the family next door, this novel is unbeatable in transporting you to the world of a privileged child in Victorian times.
Yet despite the romantic overtones, this book is not a happy fairytale. There are some real moments of sadness that one doesn't expect from a children's book and as the story progresses you are given an insight into the lives of those less fortunate.
Somehow, Burnett manages to combine the realistic side of Victorian life with the ideal, leaving you with a strange sensation that this isn't really a children's novel; it is a book that should be read and re-read by anyone of any age.
January 5, 2016
Light reading real version of the story. Loved it!
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews