I fell for the hype. The feature in the New Releases newsletter, the huge author profile and video on the book page, the pretty cover, the really great subject and the attractive author. I paid out for the hardback but you needn't, it will be remaindered within the year.

Its just flat. Really its a 'me' book, no, 'ME' book. The author just writes about himself and sketches in the people he deals with, but its all about him and to a lesser extent the kids, and to an even lesser extent his cornfed More...

Conor Grennan wanted to see the world. He thought it would be exciting and impressive if he volunteered at a children's home in Nepal for 3 months. Conor had little experience with children and little motivation to become truly involved in Little Princes, the home for illegally trafficked children. Little did he know all he would do to help these children.

As a mother, I'm skeptical when an author writes about pure happiness, joy, and smooth sailing when living with a large group of children. Of More...

An Eye-Opening Window to Nepal

When Irish American Conor Grennan decides to take a whirlwind year-long trip around the world, he opts to spend his first three months volunteering at a children’s orphanage in Nepal. The instant he walked through the gates of Little Princes, he was mobbed by laughing little boys attaching themselves to his legs like leeches hungry for blood. Running, playing, giggling children swarmed Conor from the moment he arrived, so ecstatic to have a foreigner visiting them. More...

I admit I'm not really into stories that could be made into Lifetime movies, but for whatever reason this book really hit the spot for me. I think it's because I've always been fascinated with both orphans and the nation of Nepal. I had known of the war in that country but until I read Grennan's book I hadn't realize just how bad conditions were and how much people suffered.

But the book is not depressing -- just the opposite in fact. Grennan's descriptions of the children are often very funny (e More...

This was a wonderful tale of what one man can do in the face of adversity when one's mind is made up to help. In this case the man was Connor Glennan. This man thought he would volunteer at an orphanage in Nepal and though his original commitment was for three months, he just could not get these children's faces and problems out of his head. Therefore, after a year of trekking around the world, Connor returns to the Little Princes orphanage and makes a promise to find and reunite the original se More...

Shocking but beautiful.

This was an excellent book, certainly deserving of its comparison to Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson).
From the start I liked the author and his self depreciating explantion for his visit to Nepal - a bit of volunteering would make the whole exercise of world travel, seem more valid. Little did he know what a profound effect the children would have on him.
He's a typical American lad when he arrives at the Little Princes Orphanage in Nepal, he has had no previous contact w More...

This is a remarkably warm and inspiring story of an endless war, a young man set out for adventure and the change in his life when he meets the victims of war-the children of Nepal. Connar Grennan had great plans to travel the world, have new experiences and enjoy all the excitement and pleasure he could find. But something happened that changed all that. He made a life changing decision when he volunteered to work with the displaced children in Nepal for three months. He chose to serve at the L More...

The overall story of this book is actually pretty trite. A western man named Conner, who has thus far refused to grow up, decides to volunteer for 3 months at an orphanage in Nepal before going on a year long trip around the world. Once there he becomes attached to the children. During the course of the book he does wonderful deeds, learns lessons, finds a wife, finds a faith and saves the day.

But there is something you need to know… this book is hilarious. Really, really funny. I told a few of More...

Wow! What a story. I had heard of this book, but it wasn't until it was selected as the 2011 All Fairfax Reads book for the Fairfax County Public Library that I decided to read it. I have read several books about trying to save children in remote regions (ala Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time) and I must admit that it's a guilty pleasure when I read about good works that are going on in remote regions of the world. After reading these tales, I briefly More...

Why I wanted to read this book: I have often wanted to volunteer in another country and Conor's story sounded promising and intriguing. I wanted to know how Nepal and these children changed his life and the impact he made on theirs.

What worked for me:

* I was immediately and I mean immediately drawn to Conor's voice. His authentic self shined through page after page and I liked him immediately.
* He brought the orphans to life to me. I knew these children, I could hear their voices and laughter More...

Little princes is a book about a man who goes to Nepal for the first time,and immediately falls in love with the children.Later when he comes to Nepal again,he forms a group called NGN (Next Generation Nepal)where he tries to find the parents of the orphans.In the beginning the book was slow and boring,but in the middle it got exiting and dramatic.This is a book I recommend you should read as it is very touching,and sad but also very amazing.The book will make you bite your nails of how dramatic More...

Wow. This was an great inspirational story. Rating this a 4 only because it is a non-fiction. However, I could not put it down! I would recommend it to everyone. Conor initially volunteered for three months at an orphanage in Nepal to justify taking one year off and traveling around the world (and to impress women). It changed his life. His personal dedication and establishment of a non-profit organization to unite the children with their families and to reverse the child traffiking was amazing. More...

I didnt put down this book until I finish it, in a figurative way. I liked knowing about little princes, about those kids and I loved the voice of the book, it was funny and seemed honest enough. But I have seen it before and hence I am cynical. So if tomorrow someone told me that like Three cups of the tea, this was exaggerated, I wont be surprised much.

So, till it proves me false, I'll categorize it in a human-goodness shelf, which I decided to create after feeling the weight of all the csynis More...

LITTLE PRINCES[return]One Man� s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal[return]Conor Grennan[return]William Morrow[return]Memoir[return]February 2011[return]978-0-06-193005-8[return]$25.99, 304pages[return][return]When Conor Grennan left his full-time job and decided to travel for a year, little did he know his journey would end up consuming his life, heart and soul, with an incessant need to locate children of Nepal who he had made a vow to. Conor Grennan was 29 when he decided to vol More...

In his early twenties, Conor Grennan thought he’d take a year off work and travel around the world. However, he originally wanted to brag to young women that he was going to do something special during his year away like saving children and that’s exactly what he ended up doing. Little did he know at the time that his 2-week volunteer stint in Nepal would turn into two years!

These children were orphaned and Conor wasn’t exactly sure if he wanted to get involved with a developing country in the m More...

Here is an account of how a comfortably self-centred American, who had no experience with children, dives head and shoulders into an alien situation in which children are in desperate need of sustenance, care and comfort and he becomes their heroic rescuer. The book shows how a young man's awakening sense of duty and self-worth compels him to volunteer his time for a few weeks in a Nepalese orphanage. If it proves to be a boringly inconvenient waste of his time, he muses, at least it will earn h More...

I loved reading this book---how one person can influence so many people, especially children, by just being himself and putting in a whole lot of work. Conner Grennan was determined to help children in Napal (who were victims of child trafficking) to heal, receive education and be reunited with their families. He started out as kind of a wild, young adult, just wanting to impress others that he was going to volunteer at a third-world orphanage. Well, as he settled into his new life, he began to More...

One of the wonderful advantages of being in a book club is that it compels you to read genres outside your comfort zone. "Little Princes" by Conor Grennan was chosen by a club member, and when I learned it was non-fiction, a silent groan echoed in my mind. But, very often, we can be surprised by the choices of others, and that is how this book affected me. Conor Grennan was a young man working overseas who was a bit disillusioned with his life. He decided to take a year off and travel the world, More...

An inspiring book about a young man who went out into Nepal to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Thinking it would look good on his resume for prospective employers to see he had volunteered in an orphanage in Nepal for 2 months and impress, he found something completely different when he got there. The children gave him something that changed his life in ways no-one ever thought possible and he was hooked. He couldn't stay away and wanted to keep returning after his visa expired and he l More...

LITTLE PRINCES by Conor Grennan is a story of families, hope, and other things that seem impossible during a civil war. Beyond all that, though, it is simply a tale of home, and the quiet, universal need to be loved.

When Conor Grennan signs up to volunteer at an orphanage in the middle of a civil war-torn Tibet, he doesn't really expect it to be, well, war-torn. Only, it turns out that the words “civil war” weren't just a decorative heading on the volunteer brochure—Tibet is a battleground for t More...

Though found myself completely immersed in this biographical account of the author's adventures in Nepal, I think what affected me the most about this book was the transparency with which he presented the story. Conor Grennan was pretty clear with the fact that he did not end up in Nepal for purely unselfish nor humanitarian reasons. Yet, it was pretty clear from the outset of this novel that his perspective on the greater world, and his awareness of the positive effects that he could make on pe More...

This book is the Stratford Library's "One Book, One Stratford, a community-wide reading event". Essentually, that means that the library is encouraging as many people in town as possible to read it. The author lives in Ct now but spent quite a bit of time during several years first as a volunteer in a Nepal Orphanage, and then in beginning one there himself by starting a non-profit organization. If anything, this book is a testament to what a person can do if goaded by their inner self to accomp More...

I had great expectations for this book, as it was recommended to me based on my interests.

However, it didn't have the excitement it promised, seeming more like a travelogue than a story of one man's attempts to expand his horizons and improve the world. I was interested in finding out more about the way the orphanges are run, how they are established, and how they are staffed. I did enjoy the interplay between Conor and the children, but would like to know more of the individual stories of thos More...

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal

A story like this one would already have a great storyline even if it was fictional, but the fact that this book actually describes a real perspective on the Civil War era in Nepal just makes this whole thing so much more interesting, but in a very good way! I would have been very scared if I was Conor, having to live in Nepal during a very dangerous time when there were Maoist soldiers everywhere and I could’ve easily let More...

I think Conor Grennan’s purpose for writing Little Princes is to share the story that would forever change his life. It all started when Conor agreed to volunteer at the Little Princes orphanage in Kathmandu Nepal. Right away he became extremely close to the 18 children and after being there for 3 months, it was difficult to say goodbye. He decided then that he would come back in a year to visit the children. When he returned the second time, he later found out that the kids were not orphans at More...

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In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal.

Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctiou

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I hesitated to read this book because I don't like to read sad and hopeless books, but because it was a book club choice, I read it and was glad I did. This is a story of a man's dedication to children in Nepal from 1996 to 2006. He originally went there for a stint of a couple of months to help out in an orphanage. Nepal was going through a civil war and Maoist rebels had terrotized the country. Young children were taken from their families by rebels for a price and under false pretences. The f More...

It took me a while to pick up this book, despite hearing good things about it, because I thought it would be the same as Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, except in Nepal with orphans.

It's so much better than that, especially given Mortensen's financial brouhaha (see Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way.)

Grennan quits his job at a European nonprofit to travel the world for a year. But he decides that he'll start More...