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I read this after reading A Little Princess, thinking it was a sequel (or perhaps additional details of what happened during the A Little Princess). However, it is basically a CliffsNotes of the second half of A Little Princess. It wasn’t bad, but there was no reason to read it—nothing new happened in this story.
Aside from the implausible synchronicity of the ending, it's a lovely story. I was trying to find "A Little Princess," but the library only had this version, which I now understand is an earlier and shorter version.
My favorite book as a child, and the first book I ever read more than once.
I loved this story. I read it some time ago, but forgot the title. It was great to become reacquainted. Just the sort of story that pulls on your heart. And if read by a child with a difficult life, would give a small nugget of hope inside-a way to carry on through it. The LibriVox recording I listened to wasn’t the same as this. Recorded in 2013,I believe.
I have always loved this story. It was one of the first books I ever read, being handed down in my mother’s and grandmother’s family. This reprinting is almost exactly as the one I grew up with. It is a slightly larger print and all the pictures are the same. I am so happy to have found this reprint.
Sara Crew is one of my all-time favorite stories. When I was 11 my 6th grade teacher gave me a copy for Christmas. Earlier today I was going through some of my children's books and found it on one of the shelves. I took the time to re-read it, and am so glad I did. 31 years later, and it's still just as good as I remember.
I can't help but think I am Sara Crewe.
Sara Crewe, or What Happened atMiss Minchin's, the original version of The Little Princess. Sara Crewe was written in 1888 and FHB didn't revise it into A Little Princess until 1905. All those years and people only had this small novella about a girl whose fortunes are double-reversed. It's an interesting read and an astute reader with a love of A Little Princess would pick up thousands more little tweaks than I did. An angry Sara knocks Emily to the ground. In ALP, Sara is so dedicated to her p...
Before there was A Little Princess - that beloved classic of children's literature that has long been one of the cornerstones of girlhood reading - there was Sarah Crewe, a heroine whose story began, not with the publication of the 1903 novel, but with the serialization of a shorter, earlier version of the tale, in 1888. This volume, Sara Crewe: Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, is a lovely reproduction of that earlier version, which first appeared in the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine. As...
I got this book for free on kindle. Tried reading it and almost deleted it, but then I tried it again and it was delightful. A young girl from India is sent to a boarding school in London because the heat in India is too much for her health. Her father dies, and she then become penniless. But due to her character, her charity towards another girl, her life eventually changes.
Wonderfully nostalgic rendition of the time period.
Sara Crewe: Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's is the original telling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess. The story of Sara, the extremely bright young daughter of Captain Crewe, who was placed in a boarding school only to become orphaned and then treated as a servant by Miss Minchin, was originally published as a serial novella in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1888. It was republished in 1988 by G. P. Putnam's Sons and featured the artwork of Margot Tomes.This shorter version of the w...
A Little Princess is one of my all-time favorite books, but I had never read the original story, Sara Crewe. ( A Little Princess was a rewrite of Sara Crewe.) I enjoy the rewrite so much that this book wasn't as entertaining, I missed some of my favorite characters, yet the basic part of the story was there and that I did enjoy. I wish I would have read this first, then A Little Princess. If you've read neither, I recommend starting with this book.
I'm pretty sure I read the novella of this story (the one selected here), rather than the novel (The Little Princess), mainly because I know the title was Sara Crewe. Furthermore, the extended storyline of the novel doesn't sound familiar. I remember being utterly entranced by this story. It fed my long-imagined fantasy of a secret life where I had lots of amusements and comforts and pretty much everything I wanted. (I grew up with all that I needed, but not much else.) Speaking of feeding, I sp...
QUOTES:She had a strong imagination; there was almost more imagination than there was Sara, and her whole forlorn, uncared-for child-life was made up of imaginings. She imagined and pretended things until she almost believed them, and she would scarcely have been surprised at any remarkable thing that could have happened.It is a story. They are all stories. Everything is a story--everything in this world. You are a story--I am a story--Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anythin...
I know I enjoyed this book, but don’t remember much about it. The book I read was called “Sara Crewe” and I remember seeing the book “The Little Princess” in a book store and being confused because the summary on the back sounded just like this book (Sara Crewe), so I realized it must have been renamed at some point. I also remember wishing I had the dress she wore on the cover of my book, lol!
