A Little Princess (Puffin International Women's Day Classics)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess (Puffin International Women's Day Classics)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 March 2019
Pages
304
ISBN
9780241380666

A Little Princess (Puffin International Women’s Day Classics)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in.

But when she learns that she’ll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for drudgery and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and generosity are all the riches she truly needs?

A Little Princess is one of six much-loved Puffin Classics, brought together for International Women’s Day in a stunning set in celebration of some of the most iconic female writers of the 19th and early 20th century. 

Review

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess is just as delicious now as it was when I first read it as a child. The story, about a Victorian school girl who is orphaned and forced into a life of servitude, is rife with the trials and heartache common to dreary, early 1900s London, yet it’s also a magical testimony to the importance of kindness, friendship, imagination and, above all, the power of storytelling. Even while the world as Sara knows it is crumbling around her, she has an infectious optimism that shows how your perspective in life can alter your reality.

It is worth noting that this book was written in 1905, and the story is not without its faults (though I don’t offer that as an excuse, merely as context). Some of the views and language used to describe race and class is dated and inappropriate. However, there is still, I believe, a place for this sweet story on friendship, kindness and good triumphing over evil, even today, 117 years on. For ages 9+.


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