{"product_id":"the-little-princess-by-francess-h-bunett","title":"The Little Princess   -   by Francess H. Bunett","description":"The Little Princess   -   by Francess H. Bunett   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition:  Like New \u003cbr\u003eCover:  Hardcover no slipcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Puffin in Bloom Collection; Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author:\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Cheetham, Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett developed her love for reading at a very young age. With an active imagination, she wrote stories and enjoyed narrating them to her mother, cousins, and friends. In 1868, Burnett s first story was published in Godey s Lady s Book. She had begun writing for a livelihood and wrote non-stop. That Lass o Lowrie s, her first full-length novel, was published in 1877. She started writing children s fiction after meeting Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mapes Dodge the editor of St. Nicholas, a children s magazine. In the winter of 1887, she published Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin s in the United States. A Little Princess, an expanded version of Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin s, was published in book form in September 1905. A huge success, it is still considered among children s all-time favourite novels. Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911. A classic of children s literature, it became one of her most popular novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**  5 STAR SELLER **  \u003cbr\u003eNew items added daily\u003cbr\u003eSmooth shipping\u003cbr\u003eProfessional packaging\u003cbr\u003eSpeedy replies\u003cbr\u003eFree shipping\u003cbr\u003e*****","brand":"Three Pigeons Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144108654790,"sku":null,"price":37.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0749\/7983\/6102\/files\/il_fullxfull.5962721095_hvdf.jpg?v=1788614931","url":"https:\/\/threepigeonsbookshop.com\/products\/the-little-princess-by-francess-h-bunett","provider":"Three Pigeons Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}