A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe

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A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe

by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margery Gill (Illustrator)

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Sara Crewe is a gifted and well-mannered child, and Captain Crewe, her father, is an extraordinary wealthy man. So Miss Minchin, headmistress of Sara's new boarding school in London, is pleased to treat Sara as her star pupil--a pampered little princess.But suddenly, one dreadful day, Sara's world collapses around her. All of her lovely things are taken from her and she is...more

Paperback, Puffin Classics, 296 pages

Published January 1st 1994 by Puffin Books (first published 1888)

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Jan 04, 2011 Abigail rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Readers with a Taste for Sentimental Girls' Fiction

Shelves: childrens-fiction, literature-classics, school-stories, p-l, frances-hodgson-burnett

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Jul 08, 2010 Harun Harahap rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: punya, fiksi, anak-hingga-remaja, terjemahan

Dari Sara Crewe, tokoh dalam buku ini, kita bisa belajar banyak hal. Ada tiga hal yang menurut saya sangat baik untuk diterapkan dalam kehidupan kita, yaitu:

1. Sara selalu menjadi seorang yang baik hati di setiap keadaan. Tak hanya di saat senang tapi saat susah. Ketika seseorang yang kaya secara material memberikan sumbangan pada orang miskin, orang lain akan menghormati dan menghargainya. Bagaimana jika seseorang yang miskin melakukannya? Pasti berlipat-lipat penghormatan dan penghargaan yang...more

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Apr 28, 2013 Zeek rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites-all-time, children-books, fiction, literary, kindle

The story begins with little Sara Crewe traveling from the life she’s always known living in India with her beloved Father, Captain Crewe, to be schooled like all proper British girls in London. Her father is loathe to let her go but knows he must for her own good. Almost immediately upon arrival, Sara sees quite clearly with her wise beyond her years insight that Miss Minchin, the proprietor of the school, is not a fair lady, although she hides it well enough. Just as immediately, Sara gets the...more

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Jul 14, 2007 Joanne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Downloaded this one in audio form from Librivox as well.

This is one of my all time favourite books. I first read it when I was thirteen years old and a bit of an outcast at my school and it gave me strength to move on. Her way of pretending things was very familiar to me and I got so sucked into the magic of the story.
Hearing it now, I was afraid it would prove childish, as childhood favourites often do. But to my delight it didn't. Sarah was a bit naive at times, which doesn't conflict with th...more

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Apr 19, 2013 Kathleen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens, fiction, reviewed

Today for the first time -- and as an adult -- I read this beloved riches to rags classic, set in London, 1888. After her wealthy father dies, suddenly losing his fortune, 11-year-old "princess" Sarah Crewe quickly learns what to treasure most: kindness, a warm fire, a full tummy.

Fallen from grace at the select academy (boarding school) where she's been the star pupil, transformed within moments into a drudge and banished to cold quarters in the attic, young Sara suffers much at the cruel hands...more

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Feb 25, 2010 Ellen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-lit

Though I wallowed in Burnett’s A Little Princess as a girl, in re-reading it as an adult and considering the movie adaptations, it is hard not to view it through a postcolonial lens.

The 1995 movie adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess begins with the voice-over of Sara Crewe, the main character, stating, “A very long time ago there lived a beautiful princess in a mystical land known as India . . ..” Against the otherwise blank screen, a small circular image of the imaginary...more Though I wallowed in Burnett’s A Little Princess as a girl, in re-reading it as an adult and considering the movie adaptations, it is hard not to view it through a postcolonial lens.

The 1995 movie adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess begins with the voice-over of Sara Crewe, the main character, stating, “A very long time ago there lived a beautiful princess in a mystical land known as India . . ..” Against the otherwise blank screen, a small circular image of the imaginary princess appears, then dilates to reveal the fantastic space of Sara’s story, admitting the audience into its secret spectacle.

The “mystical land known as India”--this exotic spectacle--functions as a key element in both of the original Burnett works, the 1995 movie, and two earlier movies (the 1986 Wonderworks film and the 1939 Hollywood film). Indeed, though the 1995 film’s first scene does not derive directly from any part of Burnett’s story, it reinscribes a number of ideas that do appear in Burnett’s novels and the other two films. Access to the vision of India is, in all of them, a connection to the power of empire. Sara is a “little princess” because she imagines India.

In the 1995 film, Sara tells a story about Princess Sita and her husband, Prince Rama. Rama attempts to protect Sita by drawing a magic circle around her, explaining, “So long as you stay inside it, no harm can come to you.” But when Sita hears what seems to be Rama’s voice calling for help, she leaves her circle and is soon threatened by a ten-headed demon. Although Sara appears to be controlling events in this “mystical land” by narrating them, and while the plot of her story suggests her own ability to transgress boundaries, Sara’s symbolic authority remains circumscribed and entirely derived from her father. It is Ralph Crewe’s position as a wealthy Englishman and an officer of the Raj that enables the representation of India as a commodity and spectacle--as Crewe calls it, “the only place that stirs the imagination.” He passes on to Sara his view of imagination as a resource, a “magic [which:] has to be believed, that’s the only way it’s real.” Or, as Sara refers to it in Burnett’s book, “the Magic that will never let the worst things quite happen.”

Sara, a dutiful daughter in all three film adaptations and Burnett’s two versions of the story, faithfully produces “magic” whenever she becomes particularly needy, and--like her father--uses the spectacle of India as her impetus. It is this dependence on colonialism that marks the story as essentially Victorian, even more than the references to period objects, class relations, and so forth [Burnett’s first version of the story, Sara Crewe, was published in 1888; the longer novel, A Little Princess, was published in the 1905.:] Sara may lose her father (permanently in the Burnett novels, temporarily in the films), she may seem to lose her social position and become a servant, she may seem to be rebellious or transgressive, but she is still a “princess,” a true daughter of the Empire.

Imperial India is hyperreal, in Jean Baudrillard’s term: an object fetishized by its loss, a reality rendered unreal by its “hallucinatory resemblance to itself” (“Symbolic Exchange and Death”). Producing language, narrating India, Sara is also reproducing the same ideological structures that generate the plot-problems she is trying to overcome. Her every effort to retain self-respect in her poverty reinforces her difference from the story’s other poor characters; her friendly gestures toward the Indian servant Ram Dass reiterate her standing as a member of the Raj’s officer class; her ability to survive without her father demonstrates her dependence on the symbolic economy she inherited from him. A Little Princess, in text and film versions, sets forth the hyperreal spectacle of empire in a particularly clear way.
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Apr 24, 2008 Yulia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mini-me

My mother thought it completely foolish of me to buy a hardcover book and then finish it in one night (these were the days before Harry Potter and we had enough books in our house, in her opinion). But I loved owning this edition with its gorgeous images and, when I gave it to my younger cousins in Singapore, believing myself ready to part with my childhood attachment to a book I couldn't forget my mother's resented my buying, I did mourn its loss, though I was a teenager by then and studying th...more

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Jan 07, 2010 Chandra rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: abridged-adapted, picture-books-advanced

*PLEASE NOTE: This review is for Barbara McClintock's abridged/adapted picture book version of A Little Princess - NOT the full text version by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

I can't get enough of Barbara McClintock. I think she is one of the best contemporary children's book illustrators currently working. Nine times out of ten she and I are a perfect match. But, quite frankly, sometimes she horrifies me a little with the liberties that she chooses to take with classic children's lit. First, it was he...more

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Feb 13, 2010 ame lee rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, unfinished

"she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time."

I wished Frances Hodgson Burnett stopped explaining about Sara at this point. Because at this point, I like her already. Because at this point, I wish I read this book when I was a child. Because at this point, I start to think that Sara and I have similarities.

Sadly tho...more

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Dec 01, 2007 Deidra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

Written by Francess Hodgson Burnett, published by Aladdin Classics, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division. Cover photo by Lady Clemetina Hawarden. Foreward by Nancy Bond, copyright 2001.

Grade level recommendation: 4th and older

Summary: Sara Crewe is a young girl who began her life as a pampered daughter of a rich man. However, when he dies very poor, she is at the mercy of her boarding school mistress, wo treats her very badly and turns Sara into a servant of the house...more

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Sep 19, 2007 Meg J. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: all girls - they need to know they're princesses!

Shelves: 2006

I enjoyed this story, but unfortunately I had seen the movie first and so I was disappointed that the book was not quite as encouraging as the movie. Still enjoyed it though! 04/02/2006

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"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to...more

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Sep 02, 2008 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childhood-loves, 19th-century, victorian

A story that still has the power to enchant me today. A story about both fantasy and strength, both grounded in ugly realism and sustained by flights of fancy. I remember being able to hear the rustle of little girls' skirts, feel Sara's hunger at the sight of her feast, see the shine of the candles out her attic window, join in her humiliation at her new lot in life. Yes, it does indulge in father hero-worship, but I refuse to let a little Freudian fact like that get in the way of how much I lo...more

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Nov 12, 2012 احمد هلال rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

الحمد لله رب العالمين
القصة رائعة و لكن لدى عليها علامات
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القصة جميلة ، ورائعة ومدهشة ، و فيها من الأبعاد

الأنسانية مايروى حديقة صغيرة فينبت فيها أزهارا مبتسمة

متفتحة ، و لكن الكاتبة أخلت قصتها من الإيمان بالله عز

وجل ، فكل الأحادث الجميلة حدثت و كل المشاكل حدثت ثم

كل الحلول الممتازة تحققت بعيدا عن الجانب الإيمانى .
القصة تتحدث عن الفتاة الصغيرة التى استطاعت أن تصمد

لأصعب الظروف معتمدة على القيم المثالية مجردة من

العقيدة ، و معتمدة على الخيال ، فسارة الطفلة الجميلة

كانت تتخيل أنها أميرة ومهما حد...more

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Jan 21, 2010 Laurel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children, classics

I got this book as a gift for my birthday when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I never read it. I'm not sure why exactly, but I suspect it was the word "princess" in the title. I was never really the princess type. The idea of a prim and proper little girl getting everything she wanted handed to her on a silver platter just didn't make for much of an interesting story to me. I was much more the Little House on the Prairie type. I liked stories of families overcoming hardship, and of girls not afraid...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Dyuti rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: All children who love stories

Shelves: children, ebook

Oh what a DELIGHTFUL book! My only regret is that I did not read it earlier as a child... [Mental note: I definitely have to read it aloud to my daughter, if I have one!]

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The Little Princess is the story of a child called Sara who is raised by her father in India. However, as she comes of age, her father sends her to the best boarding school in London, to complete her education. In the beginning, the owner of the school, an evil lady called Miss Minchin, treats her fairly, but only because her fa...more

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Jan 29, 2009 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-jan-2009, favorites

This was a wonderful book, beautifully written. It doesn't get such high marks on GR for nothing. It is absolutely wonderful, and you slip right into the world of this little girl - in her good times and her bad. It is an effortless transition for the reader, even though her world is completely different from what most of us have ever experienced. It does take a chapter or two to really get into the story, but once you do - watch out. I was listening to this on my MP3 player at night when I coul...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Hilary rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-lit, have-reviewed, victorian-children-s-lit, favorites

I have only really gotten to know this book as an adult and I have to say that for me sometimes just thinking about it helps my day. We all have days when we get frustrated with life. Or parts of life that seem out of control, jobs that seem hard, days when if there is just one more thing that gets on your last nerve you just might get a bit miffed. However, these are the times I then remember Sara. I remember how, in spite of what a classist book this is, it really does remind you that who you...more I have only really gotten to know this book as an adult and I have to say that for me sometimes just thinking about it helps my day. We all have days when we get frustrated with life. Or parts of life that seem out of control, jobs that seem hard, days when if there is just one more thing that gets on your last nerve you just might get a bit miffed. However, these are the times I then remember Sara. I remember how, in spite of what a classist book this is, it really does remind you that who you are is not the social status you are assigned to by life and by your circumstances. It's not the things I own that make me a wonderful person or that make anyone wonderful for that matter. It's how we treat others. That's the real lesson to be learned I think.
Whenever I have an especially bad day and I'm just ready to pack it all in I recall Sara Crewe. I remember that what made her a princess was not her status or her money for all these things sometimes change. Yet a good heart in a person is really what makes that person someone who we would want to, no, *need* to say to, "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."
That is the sort of person I want to be. I want to know people by heart. Surprisingly, it's sometimes on those bad days that if I just make the effort to act more like Sara than I usually would then those are the times that I am most rewarded for it. For on that bad day there usually was a person who really needed a smile, there was the person who just badly needed someone to listen to them, or talk with them. Sometimes it's the people who lash out most who most need us to be noble in response. Either it seems to help them or it disarms them. Usually I find the first to be more common. A smile really is all it takes sometimes. That's hard to muster on some days, but those random acts of kindness that cost nothing really do sometimes make all the difference to the people we come in contact with.
Of course if one day someone wanted to redecorate my room while I'm asleep-that I have issues with!
My favorite part of the book has more to do with the feeling of thoughts that come from the heart than any one scene in particular. It's a nice thought that there can be a set of good willed people in this world and by their very willingness to be so are in a class by themselves! I am lucky to know so many of them and to count them my friends.(less)

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Aug 19, 2007 Emily rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: little girls, lovers of fairy tales

Shelves: childhoodfavorites

My mother gave me her copy of the book when I was eight, and eleven years later, I still adore it. When I was small, I always wanted to know Sara. I always wanted her imagination and her courage. While she wasn't my role model, she was definitely in my top five literary characters that I wanted to be friends with (others being Ginger of Black Beauty, and Wise Child of Wise Child).

I've always admired Frances Hodgson Burnett's ability to build a tactile England, as well as populating it with human...more

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Jul 21, 2007 Stephany rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Like Walt Disney, Burnett is deeply interested in transformation. The Secret Garden, another wonderful book, is a more linear transformation from a sour girl into a loving one by virture of the English countryside and its denizens. But A Little Princess has more going for it. A start in colonial India, the pain of losing the only surviving parent, and the challenge not to transform, but to stay true. But Sarah Crewe is more than a Penelope at her loom. She believes in magic--and really, the kind...more

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Oct 07, 2012 Johara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, 52-books-2012

This book never fails to make me sad. Ever. I've read it a couple of times over since I was a kid, and every time it makes me feel like I want to hug Sara a million times over, and shake her (adorable) father for ever putting her under Ms. Minchin's care.

As for Sara, as with most of Frances Hodgson Burnett's characters, she's a wonderfully three-dimensional character, with enough personality to make me want to have been her, when I was younger. I couldn't stop quoting her, I really couldn't. Sh...more

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May 19, 2008 Janice rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-classics

This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll, Sara becomes a servant of the household. Hated by the schoolmistress for her independent spirit, Sa...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Ava Spach rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is an excellent balance between modern and classic, it doesn't even seem like you are reading a classic! The plot is not too confusing, yet you never know what will come next. The characters have such big and wonderful characteristics, and makes you feel so strongly about them, whether it is hate, love, or sympathy. This book belongs on the classics, fiction, AND must-read shelf!

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Apr 09, 2008 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Young Girls 7-18 years old

Shelves: all-time-faves

Absolutely beautiful, and wonderfully heart-felt and imaginative. I love this book because it has the message that no matter who you are, or where you come from, you are who you want to be, no matter what anyone might say to you. Sarah knew she was a princess in her mind, even if she wasn't living the high life, and even if she thought her father was dead. I also loved the firndship Becky and sarah had, because it showed how two very different cultures could come together and be friends, even th...more

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Jan 04, 2009 SheWunders rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to SheWunders by: Allie Williams

Shelves: ya-childrens_lit, 2009-01, classics

I've always loved this movie (the B&W, Shirley Temple version), so reading the book appealed to me. And of course - I loved it, too. It has major differences when compared to the movie, but the first 2/3rds is much the same.

After reading A Little Princess (and other pre-feminism ya lit), I realize this wonderful book (and the others) would never be published today. It's too "goody-goody." Kids today don't find this stuff interesting and to me that's really sad. I wish I could say something p...more

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Aug 29, 2009 Rae Hittinger rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: me

I don't like being told to get off my duff just because I complete the book I'm reading. This is a book I constantly come back to and visit with it as if it is my best friend, and we are enjoying a conversation over a fine pot of tea.

I first read it in fifth grade, it was a gift from my mother.

I reread it most recently when I realized my ability to read adult material had diminished as a result of reading children's literature with second graders for months. I regained my stamina and joined Ali...more

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Sep 20, 2007 Jemima rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

who can forget the little Sarah? the sweet, kindhearted child of Mr. Crewe who entertains and lights up the school of Miss Minchin with her vivid imagination and endless flights of fancy...this book, in my opinion, is one of those books that touches the little child in all of us..after all, who among us did not dream of being a "princess" one time or another? it is a delightful read surely to entertain and teach at the same time that even in the face of trials and adversity, goodness still endur...more

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Nov 17, 2011 Aditi *the bookworm* Burman rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It is an lovely book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. And it's a imotional one.The book is about how rich,wealthy Sara tries to settle and make new friends at the boarding school. and when she learns that she would never see her rich beloved father,all the story turnes upside down.She transform from a princess to a pauper.She would a have no pretty dresses. she lives in the attic, like the poor servant Becky. and her dresses get shorter and shorter everyday, will she find the kindness that she truly...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Anne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: re-reading

I must have read this book about a million times when I was younger. I think what I liked best about it was the descriptions of the clothes and the people and especially the food. I could read the chapter when the Magic happens over and over again.

That said, I can't stop thinking about something a friend of mine once said about why she preferred The Secret Garden to A Little Princess. Mary Lennox, she said, came from India a peevish unpleasant person, and by the end of the book she was a friendl...more

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Jan 04, 2009 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Things I learned:

I love this book.

Joss Whedon has wonderful taste. (He listed this book as one the five books he would want with him in the event of being stranded on a desert island)

Everyone should be gifted a book this wonderful.

I tend toward the abstract sometimes.

But to be specific. Here is a story like many stories about children in which a child attends a boarding school. In this case the child's name is Sara Crewe, and the boarding school is a seminary run by a Miss Minchin who is, of cou...more Things I learned:

I love this book.

Joss Whedon has wonderful taste. (He listed this book as one the five books he would want with him in the event of being stranded on a desert island)

Everyone should be gifted a book this wonderful.

I tend toward the abstract sometimes.

But to be specific. Here is a story like many stories about children in which a child attends a boarding school. In this case the child's name is Sara Crewe, and the boarding school is a seminary run by a Miss Minchin who is, of course, rather uptight and bitter. One suspects she never got anything she wanted for Christmas.

In the beginning, things are well for Sara because her father, a well to do Englishman, provides for her many clothes and pays for her to have a special room at the school. As such, Sara feel special, and even pretends herself at times to be a princess. She tells the students stories about being a princess. About growing up in India with her father. Supposing things she says, is the most wonderful thing in the world.

Some girls at the school are not so fond of Sara, though, especially one named Lavinia. She knows that Sara is not really a princess and that men don't really ride elephants. She is a realist and as such, we feel sorry for her because we know that having faith in reality is a rather precarious endeavor. Reality is never quite so stable as it seems.

For Sara, reality strikes in the form of something horrible happening which I shall not name. She is reduced to rags, forced to live in the attic. Barred from attending classes. In such misery, her faith in supposing is tested. Her stories at times, begin to seem rather frail and meaningless. It is easy to pretend one is a princess when one has no troubles, Sara thinks. It is a far grander thing to pretend to be a princess when one's face is smudged with coal, and one's stomach aches with hunger.

This is a story in love with stories. It is a story to take courage from, because it reminds us of the joy and necessity of supposing. It gives us hope that we can imagine ourselves into better people, that we can pretend our way into bearing things that otherwise couldn't be beared. There is a moment late in the story when wonderful things finally happen to Sara--things so magical that, though her eyes are open, she believes herself to be dreaming. She pinches herself, chews her cheek. But the wonderful thing doesn't leave her. It remains. It is a dream which is true.

I finished this book on the balcony of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi. Oxford is a rather lazy town, and Christmas lights still decorate the square. As the sunset, and I neared the end, right about the time Sara found the man responsible for the wonderful things which were true, the strings of lights around the square blinked on. It struck me as rather unreal. When I turned the last page of the book, though, and I gave myself a little pinch, I didn't wake up. The lights stayed on.
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May 04, 2013 Bev rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novel, young-people, logos, kindle

I read this book after seeing a new musical based on it. The musical was nice, but "something" was missing and I couldn't put my finger on what, so I went to the source material, and realized that the "soul" of the story had not come across to me in the musical. I started reading it on my Kindle, and then found it on the Logos shelves when I worked this week and finished it there.

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