✩ 5 stars ✩ What to Expect:➼ Riches-to-Rags-to-Riches➼ Unexpectedly Orphaned ➼ Emotional Read➼ Rich in Spirit/A Princess at Heart➼ Children’s Classic➼ Third Person POVAs a long time fan of the film, my expectations were high, but I’m happy to report that the book was equally as charming and magical. Classics don’t always feel as accessible from a modern perspective, but this still felt very relevant and had high readability. This is a riches-to-rags story in which Sara Crewe goes from a very wea...

A blast from the pastOnce upon a time, in my childhood, I had watched the movie and read a modernized version of this old classic book, but I had never actually dusted off The Original.On eBay, I scored a 1928 copy of A Little Princess in relatively good shape for about $20.Mmmmmmmmmmm. What a tactile treat! The book has these incredible glossy color pictures. The 1905 version does have a few extra pictures (cost cutting existed even in the 1900’s!). The text is laid out perfectly — it isn’t bun...

"She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself."This book tells the story of a seven year old girl, Sara, whose father got posted in a faraway place and she had to stay in a seminary.And this is the best description of Sara so far as the story goes at the beginning of the book:"Her young mother had died, and as the child had been treated like a favorite doll or a very spoiled pet monkey or lap dog ever since th...

"When one was sitting by a warm fire in a big, glowing room, it was quite delightful to hear how cold it could be in an attic."This might be commonly classified as a children's book, but I absolutely loved it. The story is give your a blast of all kinds of emotions throughout the story, and how the protagonist, Sarah Crewe faces and reacts to each of them in quite a wonderful way. The way how each supporting character complements the story is excellent, and adds much impact.' “You see, I know wh...

UNPOPULAR OPINION TIME. Sorry folks.Meet the characters:Sara aka the Little Princess is described as (and I'm only using words written explicitly in the book): thin, pale, with striking green eyes too big for her face (now I know where so many YA heroine's descriptions come from LOL), clever, good, serious, quick at her lessons, proud, brave, generous, hospitable, unconquerable, amiable, good-tempered, having good manners. She speaks fluent French, though she'd never learned it. She also speaks ...

My favourite book of all time.

One of my favorite books of all time.Okay, this needs an update. I love magical realism and as far as I can tell, this is one of the first books that I read about magical realism. This book moved me so much. The world seems to crumble around the 'little princess', but she keeps her hope that things are better with story and imagination, no matter the real world. She uplifts those girls around her. She is left at a boarding school for girls while her father goes to be in a war. He sets her up wit...

Oh my goodness I absolutely adored this! This brought me right back to childhood since I loved the movie as a kid, so glad the book is just as good!!

"Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it." Much can be said about the improbabilities in the plot, about the desperate sentimentality and caricature of Victorian England's boarding school system. It doesn't matter. To me, Sarah Crewe will always remain a symbol for...

My mother thought it completely foolish of me to buy a hardcover book and then finish it in one night (these were the days before Harry Potter and, besides, we had enough books in our house, in her opinion). But I loved owning this edition with its gorgeous images and, when I gave it to my younger cousins in Singapore, believing myself ready to part with my childhood attachment to a book I wouldn't ever forget, I did mourn its loss, though I was a teenager by then and studying the dead white mal...