Alone in a new country wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school & settle in But when she learns that she&ll never see her beloved father again her life is turned upside down Transformed from princess to pauper she must swap dancing lessons & luxury for drudgery & a room in the attic Will she find that kindness & generosity are all the riches she truly needs? ...

Alone in a new country wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in & make friends at boarding school But when she learns that she&ll never see her beloved father gain her life is turned upside down Transformed from princess to pauper she must swap dancing lessons & luxury for hard work & a room in the attic Will she find that kindness & genorosity are all the riches she truly needs? ...

I pretend I am a princess so that I can try & behave like one’ Without her beloved father & miles from home it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school Luckily Sara is always dreaming up wonderful things & her power of telling stories wins her lots of friends When a letter arrives that brings disastrous news the wicked headmistress Miss Minchin forces Sara to become a servant Her lovely clothes & toys are taken away from her She must work from dawn until midnight How will Sara cope with her new found poverty? Can her imagination help her overcome this horrible situation?BACKSTORY Read why Jacqueline Wilson loves this book & find out which pupil of Sara&s school you are most like ...

A timeless Cinderella story A Little Princess is one of the best-loved children&s classics of all time A heartwarming tale that champions the power of imagination &I&d read Frances Hodgson Burnett&s The Secret Garden & loved it
- so I tried A Little Princess & liked it even more!& Jacqueline Wilson& Sara Crewe is a Cinderella figure She is intelligent & good humoured with an infectious warmth that embraces the lowliest of her new acquaintances The sunshine continues when impoverishment & drudgery befall her & she relies on her private fantasies to preserve her natural zest for life& Guardian& It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it& When Sara Crewe is sent to Miss Minchin&s school for young ladies her indulgent father provides for her as if she were a little princess But although her toys & clothes are the envy of the other girls Sara&s kindness & gift for storytelling soon win her lots of friends Then the tragic news arrives that her father has died penniless & without wealth or a guardian Sara is at the mercy of Miss Minchin Forced to work from dawn until dusk as the school&s unpaid servant she looks over the rooftops from her damp attic room & dreams of a better life All is not lost she has friends courage & imagination
- maybe that&s all she really needs A collection that will be coveted by children & adults alike this list is the best in children&s literature curated by Virago These are timeless tales with beautiful covers that will be treasured & shared across the generations Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you but there are stories for everyone to love whatever your age Our list

Includes:: Nina Bawden (Carrie&s War The Peppermint Pig) Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse An Episode of Sparrows) Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden The Gift Giving) E Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy The Bastable Trilogy The Railway Children) L M Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series) & Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy) Discover Virago Children&s Classics



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Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin&s Her father was immensely rich & she became show pupil&
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A specially adapted board book edition of Oliver Jeffers' laugh-out-loud classic Stuck Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree He throws up his shoe to shift it but that gets stuck too So he throws up his other shoe & that gets stuck along with a ladder a pot of paint the kitchen sink an orang-utan & a whale amongst other things! Will Floyd ever get his kite back? A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending ...

We are on the cusp of a reading revolution Increasingly research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading & wellbeing The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health & happiness benefits It stimulates thought & memory encourages the sharing of ideas & feelings hopes & fears It enriches our lives & minds This unique book offers a selection of prose & poetry especially suitable for reading aloud
- to your husband or wife a sick parent or child an elderly relative With short introductions & discussion topics for each piece there's something here for everyone
- from Shakespeare & Black Beauty to Elizabeth Jennings & Bruce Chatwin All royalties in full will go to The Reader Organisation the leading UK charity for reading & health

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This lavishly photographed interiors book shows how to leave behind design rules to create truly beautiful original interiors For over 20 years Kit Kemp has been at the forefront of the international design community with her signature style that mixes contemporary elements with antiques & junk-shop finds luxurious fabrics with printed wallpapers & hand finished detailing with collections of simple objects that create impact She avoids taking design too seriously playing with scale colour & pattern to create very personal handcrafted spaces Alongside the stunning images of room sets & detailed close-ups will be the inspiration behind Kit's work & her tips for creating your own version of her style at home Interiors are meant for living in & the key is to create a space that is comfortable beautiful & reflects who you really are ...

Rick Gekoski's follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Darke is a novel about 1950s America a marriage in crisis & a family falling apart at the seams 320 pages Gekoski Rick ...

One of the most vivid & realised characters of recent fiction Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields & that festering at home waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising Profoundly moving intimate & epic A Long Long Way charts & evokes a terrible coming of age one too often written out of history ...