Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess: (Illustrated) Frances Hodgson Burnett

Publisher Marketing: "Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares." She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes. She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. "The Little Princes, in this Illustrated book, a fantastic girl who Principally, she was thinking of what a queer thing it was that at one time one was in India in the blazing sun, and then in the middle of the ocean, and then driving in a strange vehicle through strange streets where the day was as dark as the night. She found this so puzzling that she moved closer to her father.." Illustrated by Murat UKray, By e-Kitap Projesi Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2005 pg. 311 (EAN 9781402714542, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 337 (EAN 9780060081379, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 pg. 337 (EAN 9780060081379, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1995 (EAN 9780879237844, Hardcover) School Library Journal 07/01/2003 (EAN 9789626342541, Compact Disc) School Library Journal 07/01/2003 (EAN 9789626347546, Analog Audio Cassette) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 515 (EAN 9780140366884, Paperback) Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 67 (EAN 9780689844072, Paperback) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 245 (EAN 9780141312033, Paperback) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 245 (EAN 9780141312033, Paperback) Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 966 (EAN 9780060290108, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2000 pg. 31 (EAN 9780060290108, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 31 (EAN 9780060290108, Library Binding) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 515 (EAN 9780679850908, Paperback) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2006 pg. 59 (EAN 9780679850908, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 515 (EAN 9780064401876, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 958 (EAN 9780064401876, Paperback) Ingram Paperback Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 62 (EAN 9780451525093, Mass Market Paperbound) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1995 pg. 295 (EAN 9780448409498, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 96 01/01/1996 pg. 515 (EAN 9780448409498, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 456 (EAN 9780397313396, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 456 (EAN 9780397306930, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 958 (EAN 9780397306930, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Burnett, Frances Hodgson Frances Hodgson Burnett was a born storyteller. Even as a young child, her greatest pleasure was in making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. She wrote over forty books, including the classic A Little Princess, also illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Contributor Bio:  Ukray, Murat Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877) was an English antiquarian and writer. Wright was born near Ludlow, Shropshire, descended from a Quaker family formerly living at Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Ludlow Grammar School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1834. While at Cambridge he contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1835 he came to London to devote himself to a literary career. His first separate work was Early English Poetry in Black Letter, with Prefaces and Notes (1836, 4 vols. 12mo), which was followed during the next forty years by an extensive series of publications, many of lasting value. He helped to found the British Archaeological Association and the Percy Society, the Camden and the Shakespeare Society. In 1842 he was elected corresponding member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of Paris, and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries as well as member of many other learned British and foreign bodies. In 1859 he superintended the excavations of the Roman town of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), near Shrewsbury, and issued a report. A portrait of him is in the Drawing Room Portrait Gallery for 1 October 1859. He was a great scholar, but will be chiefly remembered as an industrious antiquary and the editor of many relics of the Middle Ages. He died at Chelsea, London in his 67th year. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery.