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A Little Princess

On sale

21st November 2024

Price: £7.99

Genre

Teenage)

Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781454953579

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic rags-to-riches tale is now available in an unabridged paperback edition for today’s young readers. Little Sara Crewe, once pampered by her beloved father, is suddenly penniless and abandoned in a boarding school. Though she endures the mistreatment of the cruel headmistress, Miss Minchin, Sara manages to keep her kind heart despite her circumstances. This timeless story of a poor but compassionate orphan has won children over for generations.

Reviews

Sara Crewe is a Cinderella figure . . . She is intelligent and good humoured with an infectious warmth that embraces the lowliest of her new acquaintances. The sunshine continues when impoverishment and drudgery befall her and she relies on her private fantasies to preserve her natural zest for life
Guardian
I'm not sure I could have survived childhood without Frances Hodgson Burnett. My sister and I would crawl into the attic of our suburban American house and pretend we were looking across London rooftops. We'd lost our parents and our money, but perhaps a mysterious monk would visit our miserable garret
Meg Rosoff
Generations of children have fallen in love with the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive the hard times
Daily Mail
I'd read Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and loved it - so I tried A Little Princess and liked it even more!
Jacqueline Wilson