Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
When kindhearted Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's boarding school, she seems just like a real little princess. Then a sudden misfortune turns her life upside down, and Sara is banished to the school's dreary attic. It takes all of Sara's imagination and a little bit of magic to turn her...
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When kindhearted Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's boarding school, she seems just like a real little princess. Then a sudden misfortune turns her life upside down, and Sara is banished to the school's dreary attic. It takes all of Sara's imagination and a little bit of magic to turn her misfortune around and prove she is, at heart, a little princess. In this first-ever picture-book adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Sara Crewe and nineteenth-century London come brilliantly alive under the expert hand of award-winning author and illustrator Barbara McClintock.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060278915 (0060278919)
Publish date: September 19th 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
This is a book that I would have in my classroom library for students to read in their free time. I would have this in grades K-4. When the student is finished reading the book I would ask them a series of questions to test for comprehension of the book.
*PLEASE NOTE: This review is for Barbara McClintock's abridged/adapted picture book version of A Little Princess - NOT the full text version by Frances Hodgson Burnett.I can't get enough of Barbara McClintock. I think she is one of the best contemporary children's book illustrators currently worki...
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