I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn't quite like it. ?I don't like it, papa, ? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don't really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father's eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which ...
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I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. ?When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn't quite like it. ?I don't like it, papa, ? she said. ?But then I dare say soldiers?even brave ones?don't really like going into battle. ?The apple of her father's eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ?princess?, which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father's death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewe's imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children's novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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The Little Princess is certainly a timeless book. I read it as a young girl and just recently finished reading it again with my daughter. Immediately upon finishing the last chapter, I surprised my daughter with the movie DVD. (Alibris has both!). The storyline and vocabulary is refreshingly innocent yet still relevant. The novel was written in 1905 and I discovered that girls have not changed! The novel features a strong, leading girl who struggles to maintain her standards and values in the face of adversity. The story takes place in a boarding school with the same wide spectrum of girl "stereotypes" that your child will encounter in 2008! Enjoy and discuss....
