n I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. n When the kind and imaginative seven-year-old Sara Crewe reaches Miss Minchins Select Seminary for Young Ladies with her papa, she doesnt quite like it. n I dont like it, papa, she said. But then n I dare say soldiers-- even brave ones-- dont really like going into battle. n The apple of her fathers 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. n But just after her eleventh birthday, when the news of her fathers death arrives, everything changes. Will Sara Crewes imagination help her n cope up with the loss and hardships? n One of the all-time childrens novels, Frances Hodgson Burnetts 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. n