'A Little Princess' is the story of young Sara Crewe. She is brought by her father from India to be boarded and educated in London at a select school. Her father arranges for her to have a ridiculous abundance of luxuries - which, somehow, don't spoil her - and special priviledges from the headmistr...
Gorgeous introspective book. Reading this right after The Secret Garden, it's easy to be amazed and enchanted by Hogson Burnett's ability to transport the reader to that state in childhood where the mundane is made magical with barely a flick of the mind. I reckon that's one of the draws of these bo...
I used to love the movie when I was a kid, so I guess it's not surprising that I adored the book as well -the book was a product of its time and the style of it has definitely aged (the sheer amount of ejaculations in it!) - but overall the idea still remains - it is this really positive, really opt...
It was a great book and I enjoyed it. Sarah and her imagination was the best parts of the story. However, I have watched the movie to this and it is a little bit different. I liked the book but the story line of the movie was much more happier and better and I preferred it more but till the book was...
Man, I wish I had read this as a child. What a lovely book! I DID see the movie adaptation with Shirley Temple a few times and because of that had a totally different idea of what it was going to be like. And how it would end. The book is SO much better!
This review was first posted on amazon on June 3, 2003. I first read this book when I was ten years old. I still remember being transported from my Boise, Idaho sunroom, circa summer vacation 1976, back to the foggy gaslit streets of Victorian London. I don't believe that I moved off that sunroom ...
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