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Title: The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kathryn Lindskoog, Barbara Chitouras ISBN: 0-88070-527-2 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 09 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (229 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: All's Well that Ends Well
Comment: 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.

1-8-04

Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful story
Comment: 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.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Little Princess review
Comment: I think that A Little Princess was a very good book because of the sequence of events that Sara Crewe has to go through.