When kindhearted Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's boarding school, she seems just like a real little princess. Then a sudden misfortune turns her life upside down, and Sara is banished to the school's dreary attic. It takes all of Sara's imagination and a little bit of magic to turn her misfortune around and prove she is, at heart, a little princess. In this first-ever picture-book adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Sara Crewe and nineteenth-century London come brilliantly alive under the expert hand of award-winning author and illustrator Barbara McClintock.
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Ages 5-7. Not just abridged but retold, this colorfully illustrated, large-format book has a text that's longer than most picture books but considerably shorter than Burnett's beloved novel. McClintock's sensitive illustrations, apparently ink drawings with watercolor washes, will certainly appeal to readers and book buyers of all ages. The period settings and costumes have a charm all their own, and the detailed pictures clearly portray Sara's transformation from privileged child to pauper and back again. Some scenes and dialogue here did not appear in the original book, but they serve to move the plot along more swiftly. The story loses a great deal of subtlety in theme and character development (as well as plot and setting) in its adaptation to picture-book format. Those who love the original will advise children to wait until they're old enough to read it. But children or parents who want a picture-book version will find this a very pretty one. Carolyn Phelan
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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"McClintock's sensitive illustrations will certainly appeal to readers and book buyers of all ages.""Booklist
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Shipping was fast. Book was beautiful. My only comment is I would have liked to have seen verbage stating what age group this particular version of the book was geared toward. I was purchasing this book for the school library and couldn't tell what grades it was appropriate for. For a school of 3 - 5th graders, I feel this version is a little young. Other than the lack of verbage in the description I was very pleased with all other aspects of this transaction.
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Papa, is this the place? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Minchin, Captain Crewe, Sara Crewe New!
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Papa, is this the place? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Minchin, Captain Crewe, Sara Crewe New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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