A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of A Little Princess
Book Review: A wonderful story
Summary: 5 Stars
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 couch until I had devoured this entire book. I loved the whole idea of A Little Princess -- the beautiful clothes (watered silk and petticoats!), the food (gruel!), and Sara's suffering in the garrett. Sara's life was so different from mine. Reading this book was like travelling to a different continent.In some ways, this is a formula book for girls -- although it might be fair to say that this book invented the formula: plucky, mistreated orphan (mysteriously stripped of her fortune), who never loses hope and remains truly good transformed through a mysterious benefactor into a girl rich beyond her wildest dreams (see also: the Boxcar Children; Little Orphan Annie, etc).
Sara is an extremely engaging character. She is almost too good to be true -- kind to the servants, smarter than the headmistress, and able to tell stories that ensnare her listeners. Sara's stories enable her, first to make friends, and then later, to cope with the rather significant blows that life (and the author) deal her.
And, in the best of tradition of this type of story, Sara is rescued, her wealth is restored, she remains a perfectly lovely little girl, and the horrible headmistress who mistreated her gets her comeuppance. All is right with the world once again.
Book Review: All's Well that Ends Well
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a sweet little book ~~ with a great story to tell. It is about a little girl who is sent to a boarding school in London. She leaves her father and a beloved life in India behind ~~ but endowed with lots of riches, fancy clothes, a beautiful doll and more importantly, with the love of her father. Unspoiled though, Sara comes to London determined to get a good education. And this is just the beginning of the story.With tragic events that spun out of control, Sara finds herself a penniless orphan one day and at the mercy of her headmistress, she stays ~~ but as an errand girl. With the grace of her imagination, Sara survives.
It is a beautifully-written tale of love and adventure and one little girl's imagination that keeps her entertained and helps her survive poverty ~~ she makes proverty an adventure as she's aware always that there is someone worse off than her.
It is a story for both little boys and girls ~~ moms and dads to read as well. It provides a moral structure but it isn't preachy. It's just a lovely tale of a little girl who really knows what treasure of the heart is.
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Book Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the books that makes you sit and think after you read it. I love this book and recommend it to anyoe becuase its just great-- beyond words. Buy it-- Its amazing and even thoguh Im 14, I love it and read it over and over again.Book Review: Amazing book!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was around 6 years old my mother rented the movie, "A Little Princess". Of course, being that young I didn't really like or appreciate it and never really wanted to read the book. A few years later my sister bought the book which she read and really liked, but I still didn't want to read it. Just a few years ago I saw a play that my high school put on, A Little Princess, and I loved it! Right when I got home I started to read the book, and finished it by the next day. It's one of the best books I have ever read!The book is about a little girl named Sara Crewe, who's father was a Captain in India. She is sent to Miss Minchin's bording school in England where she is surrounded in weath, friends and her big imagination. On her 11th birthday she learns something really sad... her father, the dearest person in the world to her, died due to brain fever & being cheated of all his money. Miss Minchin then makes Sara into a maid because she has no money left, and she has to sleep in the attic with all the mice and roaches...
There is so much more to the story than that so don't worry if I said to much. Don't do as I did, and read the book as soon as you finish reading this review, you won't be sorry! Oh, and by the way, once you finished reading this book, try some of the other books by Frances Hodgson Burnett, she rights tons of other really great books too!
Book Review: An Absolute Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I discovered this book on a library shelf when I was about 9 years old. This book as well as The Secret Garden have since gained permanent shelf space in my library. What a wonderful book this is. It gently handles the inequities of the British class system of the Victorian/Edwardian period and creates a classic heroine in the process. It's a fairy tale and a parable all rolled into one. Considering the story was nearly a century old when I read it, this book will still be entertaining to any pre-teen girl you know who likes romanticism. A great gift for the girl in your life who has a vivid imagination.