{"id":2193,"date":"2025-10-09T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:33:49","slug":"a-little-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"A Little Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like Matilda<\/em>, this book focuses on a child escaping from awful circumstances by the power of her mind and creativity. I read it over and over as a child–Sara’s times of luxury and deprivation, love and misery, were enthralling (as was the glimpse into British boarding schools of the nineteenth century). And the sumptuous pictures! I read The Secret Garden<\/em> by the same author around the same time. It never spoke to me in the same way (perhaps it would have if I’d had a copy of the edition Tasha Tudor illustrated), but it did make a a musical <\/a>I hugely enjoyed as a young teen. (Avoid the movie of A Little Princess<\/em> with Shirley Temple at all costs.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caveat: Keep in mind that both A Little Princess<\/em> and The Secret Garden<\/em> are about 120 years old and aspects of them have not aged well at all–read them alone first, there are a lot of things you’ll want to be ready to discuss if you read it to a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustrator: Tasha Tudor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like Matilda, this book focuses on a child escaping from awful circumstances by the power of her mind and creativity. I read it over and over as a child–Sara’s times of luxury and deprivation, love and misery, were enthralling (as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[752,119,769,633,40,749,155,748,767,747,342,751,750,753],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-books","tag-a-little-princess","tag-animals","tag-caveat","tag-england","tag-food","tag-frances-hodgson-burnett","tag-i-read-this-as-a-kid","tag-matilda","tag-movie","tag-musical","tag-school","tag-shirley-temple","tag-tasha-tudor","tag-the-secret-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}