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kitabloomfield 's review for:
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read aloud to the children (now 8 and 9) and they both enjoyed it. In fact once we got to the last third I ended up having to read in one sitting as everyone was intent upon carrying on!
This was actually a book which has held up relatively well - the Victorian setting and the colonisation of India was touched upon (which is also a theme in the Secret Garden so they are familiar) but it did a better job of showing Sara’s (and her fathers) awe of Indian culture and not the usual disdain in this era of literature.
The character of Sara was a great FMC - she was stoic and calm and used her imagination to look for the positives - and even before her riches to rags transformation she already questioned the social order (she tells one child how it is only an accident that she is rich and the other child poor - which is incredibly enlightened for a small child). Then of course she tried to maintain her own identity even when she is forced to become a servant herself. The story is very sweet and it’s nice to see the comeuppance at the end. (Side note - hadn’t ever read this one myself but had seen the 1995 film as a child - so I was expecting a different ending!).
This was actually a book which has held up relatively well - the Victorian setting and the colonisation of India was touched upon (which is also a theme in the Secret Garden so they are familiar) but it did a better job of showing Sara’s (and her fathers) awe of Indian culture and not the usual disdain in this era of literature.
The character of Sara was a great FMC - she was stoic and calm and used her imagination to look for the positives - and even before her riches to rags transformation she already questioned the social order (she tells one child how it is only an accident that she is rich and the other child poor - which is incredibly enlightened for a small child). Then of course she tried to maintain her own identity even when she is forced to become a servant herself. The story is very sweet and it’s nice to see the comeuppance at the end. (Side note - hadn’t ever read this one myself but had seen the 1995 film as a child - so I was expecting a different ending!).