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| A Little Princess (Great Classics for Children)
by Dalmatian Press
| | List Price: | $5.99 |  | | 2 New starting at: | $9.99 | | 12 Used starting at: | $2.98 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 986552 | | Studio: | Dalmatian Press | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 192 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Dalmatian Press |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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Better than Sappy 
A Little Princess follows the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl whose mother died when she was a baby and who has been sent to bording school. She has the finest clothes and toys and anything she wants but isn't spoiled (the story is a fairy tale, by the way). She imagines herself as a princess and wants to be kind wise and just. She does good deeds as her way of "scattering largess to the population." This results in her being the social butterfly of the bording school and earns her the animosity of its queen bee. All this changes in an instant when her fortune is lost and she becomes a scullery maid in the same boarding school. She works all day, sleeps in an unheated attic, and is underfed. She now imagines herself as a princess in disguise, and continues to try and do good deeds for anyone less fotunate. But now she has another identity too - a soldier, like her father, who must live on rations and bravely face each day.
I didn't find this book to be overly sappy and sentimental, but it got close to the borderline at times. There were plenty of discussions of dolls and lacey dresses and ribbons. I read this as an adult. I guess these are supposed to appeal to little girls who want to have a little princessy playground and so would love to read about ribbons, but I think descriptions of lace would have put me off as a child as well. Like I said, these only get borderline sappy, probably because Sara soon becomes penniless and enters the lower class. As a scullery maid she experiences hunger, phsychological abuse from the bording school mistress, and a grinding work schedule. This is not sugar coated for the children, but it isn't the focus either. The focus is on Sara's internal thoughts, her relationships with her few loyal student friends, and what she thinks of the neighbors and the new people she meets and things she sees. So even though there is all this poverty it is there as a setting and not because the author has an axe to grind. Even the ending is fairy tale, but partly bitter-sweet. Strangely enough, this book came across as realistic.
This is a children's book, but functions as a book for adults as well. For example, the estate agent's diplomacy in getting Sara hired by the bording school after she is found to be penniless has some subtlties that are going to be more real for older readers.
I recommend this book to all. It is a children's book that works for adults too. It skirts the border of sappy, but for me didn't cross over at any point. It was a good story that I read through quickly and did not get bored with or bogged down by.
July 18, 2006 | |
A Little Princess
The book I read was "The Little Princess." This book is about a little girl and her father. Since her mother died when she was born Sara and her father became very close. Sara has to go away to an all girl boarding school in Britian, because her father has to fight in the war. Her father is very rich, which makes her very rich. When she gets to the boarding school all of the girls call her the little princess because she has a lot of dolls and toys. She tells them stories of India and animals and monsters. She tells them that every girl is a princess. One day a messenger comes and tells her that her father is dead. Since Sara will lose all the money her father has she is forced to be a maid with the other maid who is black named Becky just so she can have a place to live. She finds out that her father is not dead, but he cannot remember her, because he has brain damage. As the policemen are getting ready to take her away he remembers he had daughter named Sara and they live happily ever after.
Sara has brown hair that touches her shoulders, she is thin with blue eyes. She is very imaginative, kind, understanding, and she cares a lot about other people, and tries to help people in need. We are alike because we both are imaginative and try to help people in need. We also both believe that every girl is a princess. We are different because she younger than me, she lives in a differnet country than me , her mother is dead and mine's not, and she belives in fairy tales and monsters and things and I don't. I am very imaginative though.
I liked this book a lot! I like this book because I belive every girl is a princess no matter what everyone else says. My favorite part is when her and her father reunite. I would definitly recommend this book to a friend, I think they would like it as much as me.
January 04, 2005 | |
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