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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
I read the ebook, even though I don't like ebooks that much, because I suddenly had to read A Little Princess. But the local library where I was living, up until this past Saturday, didn't have a copy. I plan on buying the Puffin in Bloom addition soon.
I grew up watching the 1995 movie on VHS until the tape broke from being watched too much. Although I didn't realize this was even a book until about five years ago and I finally read it!
I actually prefer the ending in the book to the movie. The movie ending is much happier, but the book ending is more believable. Miss Minchin is awful and I wish that Miss Amelia had her little love story in the book too.
I love this story and will reread soon
I grew up watching the 1995 movie on VHS until the tape broke from being watched too much. Although I didn't realize this was even a book until about five years ago and I finally read it!
I actually prefer the ending in the book to the movie. The movie ending is much happier, but the book ending is more believable. Miss Minchin is awful and I wish that Miss Amelia had her little love story in the book too.
I love this story and will reread soon
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
A re-read. What struck me as reading it as an adult was how much it focussed on storytelling and the imagination, yes it's a little sentimental and didactic but I temporarily gave up my cynical adult viewpoint and throughly enjoyed it.
Another children's classic that I love. Like the Secret Garden I've read different variation of this story and I enjoyed each one of them. I can't wait to read this story to my little girl!!!
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ah, what a sweet, good-natured book this is! Quite Dickensian in character, it benefits most from the author's ability to sell something that could have been a treacly mess but is instead a heartwarming tale of riches to rags and back again.
Sara Crewe is the pampered, intelligent, sweet child of a doting father who brings her to London from India to attend a boarding school for little girls. She is a lover of books and using her imagination to go to fantasy worlds in her head and the stories she tells to others. She fancies herself a little princess (thus the title, of course) but does not use this designation to denigrate others; rather, she thinks of this as an ennobling state, in which she must rise above the vulgarity and vindictiveness of the common herd of humanity. This will serve her well as she falls from her treasured perch atop her world.
And fall she must, naturally, a long fall into poverty and desperate conditions, though she never loses heart and only rarely loses her temper. That she does from time to time resort to a bit of pettiness or a touch of despair helps rather than harms her character. Any child who could withstand such an onslaught while remaining pure and unfailingly good-natured would not be one for whom we could care. She is as human as the rest of us, merely better at making the best of things.
As I said at the start, my greatest admiration is the skill with which Burnett guides us through the emotional reality of Sara and her world. In less adept hands, this could easily have turned into something silly or incredible. Had the author at any point have seemed to be winking at us, to be expressing irony or self-consciousness about Sara, the entire edifice would have collapsed. To her credit, she does nothing of the sort, evincing nothing but the deepest admiration for her protagonist and all she does.
There was only one point at which I had to roll my eyes a bit and chuckle, that being when someone moved into the vacant house next door. I will not engage in any spoilers, but I do have to say: oh, come on, Frances! Still, this one hiccup is not enough to derail a beautiful and charming story, one which I will carry with me for quite some time. And if I can display even one iota of the aplomb and kindness in my adversity that Sara did in hers, I will consider myself well-served, indeed.
Sara Crewe is the pampered, intelligent, sweet child of a doting father who brings her to London from India to attend a boarding school for little girls. She is a lover of books and using her imagination to go to fantasy worlds in her head and the stories she tells to others. She fancies herself a little princess (thus the title, of course) but does not use this designation to denigrate others; rather, she thinks of this as an ennobling state, in which she must rise above the vulgarity and vindictiveness of the common herd of humanity. This will serve her well as she falls from her treasured perch atop her world.
And fall she must, naturally, a long fall into poverty and desperate conditions, though she never loses heart and only rarely loses her temper. That she does from time to time resort to a bit of pettiness or a touch of despair helps rather than harms her character. Any child who could withstand such an onslaught while remaining pure and unfailingly good-natured would not be one for whom we could care. She is as human as the rest of us, merely better at making the best of things.
As I said at the start, my greatest admiration is the skill with which Burnett guides us through the emotional reality of Sara and her world. In less adept hands, this could easily have turned into something silly or incredible. Had the author at any point have seemed to be winking at us, to be expressing irony or self-consciousness about Sara, the entire edifice would have collapsed. To her credit, she does nothing of the sort, evincing nothing but the deepest admiration for her protagonist and all she does.
There was only one point at which I had to roll my eyes a bit and chuckle, that being when someone moved into the vacant house next door. I will not engage in any spoilers, but I do have to say: oh, come on, Frances! Still, this one hiccup is not enough to derail a beautiful and charming story, one which I will carry with me for quite some time. And if I can display even one iota of the aplomb and kindness in my adversity that Sara did in hers, I will consider myself well-served, indeed.
I am so happy I finally picked up this book. As a child the movie adaption was the only princess movie I actually liked/ would watch at all.
While there was a lot of differences between the two, I still enjoyed both even though it was slightly confusing at times. The one thing I didn’t like about the book though was that she hardly included Becky into her world. The only time she included her at all really was towards the end.
It was nice to see though that she did struggle with being good when she lost her riches and it wasn’t as easy to be nice and kind all of the time like she thought it was.
That ending though.. I liked the movie version of it better. The book ending was still nice and happy it just wasn’t what I was expecting.
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While there was a lot of differences between the two, I still enjoyed both even though it was slightly confusing at times. The one thing I didn’t like about the book though was that she hardly included Becky into her world. The only time she included her at all really was towards the end.
It was nice to see though that she did struggle with being good when she lost her riches and it wasn’t as easy to be nice and kind all of the time like she thought it was.
That ending though.. I liked the movie version of it better. The book ending was still nice and happy it just wasn’t what I was expecting.
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adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
