I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.” When the kind and im...
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I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.” When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchin’ s Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesn’ t quite like it. “ I don’ t like it, papa,” she said. “ But then I dare say soldiers— even brave ones— don’ t really like going into battle.” The apple of her father’ s eye, Sara has all the privileges at the seminary and is treated with special care. Soon enough, she befriends her classmates and is nicknamed a ‘ princess’ , which she often pretends to be. But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her father’ s death arrives, everything changes.Will Sara Crewe's imagination help her cope up with the loss and hardships?One of the all-time children’ s novels, Frances Hodgson Burnett’ s A Little Princess is a remarkable story. It has been adapted for films, theatre, musicals, and television, and continues to remain popular more than a century after its publication.
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