Tenía tantas ganas de leer esta historia, y no me decepcionó.
La forma de escribir de la autora es muy linda y me encanta tener la oportunidad de conocerla ahora en esta travesía de Sara, que de paso es de mis películas favoritas.
Dulce, muy muy mágica a su manera y llena de ese sentimiento igual de agradable que tiene el jardín secreto.

This story is very near and dear to my heart. I grew up watching the movie on repeat and when I found out it was a book as a teen, I was ecstatic. And the story only grows better with age for me. Something about it just speaks to my heart and it makes me incredibly happy. I do have to admit though, this is one of the very rare cases where I enjoy the movie more than the book. I think that may be just a case of childhood nostalgia though, I was absolutely enthralled by that movie!

One of my favorite books as a child. I didn't like it as much as "A Secret Garden," but it's still an amazing read.

Downloaded this one in audio form from Librivox as well.

This is one of my all time favourite books. I first read it when I was thirteen years old and a bit of an outcast at my school and it gave me strength to move on. Her way of pretending things was very familiar to me and I got so sucked into the magic of the story.
Hearing it now, I was afraid it would prove childish, as childhood favourites often do. But to my delight it didn't. Sarah was a bit naive at times, which doesn't conflict with the fact that she's a little girl, and the story was as charming as I remembered it.

There's a lot of moral and reproach in the book, but the author manages to keep it lighthearted, and to make you yourself wish to become a better person. This book and 'The secret garden' are much better in that way than 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', which is absolutly awful, and which I haven't even been able to finish. Here, the people are not perfect, but each is good in his own way.

And of course there's the magic transformation of the attic, which I'll always remember, but which has somehow made less of an impression on me this time than it did last.

The only thing which disturbed me was, as another person mentioned here, the hints of orientalism. But you have to remember that that was the way people thought in those times in England. You can compare in to the fact that in the 19th century most of the writers were vaguly antisemetic - you can find it in Dickens, in Verne. So just keep in mind that it was the norm at the time.

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Amé este libro. Cuantas virtudes encontré en él. Amor, bondad, perseverancia, amistad, compasión y muchas más.

Sara es una niña rica que llega a un instituto de Inglaterra para continuar con sus estudios. A pesar de su fortuna la niña es noble y de gran corazón. Su padre parte hacia la India a continuar con sus negocios y deja a Sara en manos de la directora Minchin, una mujer déspota que solo le interesa la reputación de su instituto.

Sara es una sensación entre las alumnas, pues viste los mejores trajes y tiene los mejores juguetes. Aparte de que habla perfectamente el francés y tiene una gran imaginación para crear historias. Aún con todas esas cualidades, Sara se hace amiga de aquellos niños desvalidos y que se sienten solos.

Sara es respetada, admirada y odiada por muchas chicas en el instituto. Hasta que su vida da un giro inesperado. Su padre muere en la India y queda en bancarrota por unas malas inversiones que hizo en una mina de diamantes. A partir de entonces, Sara tiene que renunciar a su vida de lujos y trabajar para poder sobrevivir.

Una historia hermosísima con un gran mensaje. Este libro será de los primeros que le daré a mi hija cuando aprenda a leer.

I really enjoyed this one! I thought it was very uplifting, and I loved the message behind it. I would definitely recommend this book to people of all ages.

Sara Crewe has had every advantage in life when she arrives at Miss Minchin’s school, notably vast wealth and a loving father. However, even with all her riches, Sara is still a kind and giving person.

“Perhaps I’m a hideous child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.”

Sara suffers a reversal of fortune, losing both her wealth and family. She is reduced to being a pauper in rags and barely having enough to eat.

“If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that – warm things, kind things, sweet things – help and comfort and laughter – and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”

In the grimmest of circumstances, Sara still comports herself as a “princess” would. Others in her position would become cruel or cynical, but Sara manages to maintain her values.

I loved this story as a child, and I enjoyed my rereading experience as an adult, which was especially enhanced by reading the edition with Tasha Tudor’s charming illustrations.

One of my favorite books of all time.

Okay, this needs an update. I love magical realism and as far as I can tell, this is one of the first books that I read about magical realism. This book moved me so much. The world seems to crumble around the 'little princess', but she keeps her hope that things are better with story and imagination, no matter the real world. She uplifts those girls around her.

She is left at a boarding school for girls while her father goes to be in a war. He sets her up with the best room and things and he does his best to spoil her from afar. She is kind to the girls around her and spins fabulous tales that change the lives of the girls around her. It gives them strength and hope and a sense of belonging, of home.

Then, her father goes missing and the money stops and the head mistress who put up with the girls shenanigans lets her hatred out and the girl has to become a servant in the school. She continues to help the girls around her, she continues to spin tales.

Our perspective in life really does define our reality. I love this story because I strive to be this way, but I fall so short. I want to be able to live this so much. When life gets difficult, I tend to give up and shrink away. Then I have to build myself up all over again. I want to be more like Sarah and able to withstand tough times.

This would be a desert island book for me. I need that romantic view of life. I'm also a 4 on the enneagram which is the romantic and I just see the world through that romantic lens, so it makes sense stories about romantic ideals will speak to me. This is the best of the best.

A new favourite. I cried and smiled and simply LOVED it. I can’t believe this was my first time reading it! Sara Crewe is definitely Anne Shirley’s long lost sister and I couldn’t wish for anything better than that.

The story begins with little Sara Crewe traveling from the life she’s always known living in India with her beloved Father, Captain Crewe, to be schooled like all proper British girls in London. Her father is loathe to let her go but knows he must for her own good. Almost immediately upon arrival, Sara sees quite clearly with her wise beyond her years insight that Miss Minchin, the proprietor of the school, is not a fair lady, although she hides it well enough. Just as immediately, Sara gets the reputation of being a little princess as her father lavishly buys cloths, dolls and comfortable living quarters. But Sara is not the spoiled child you might think her to be, no- quite the opposite. She could have cared less for all the finery if only to stay with her Papa, but of course society says otherwise and far too quickly she is left behind.

Miss Minchin doesn’t make it easy for Sara, of course, but because she values Sara’s money, she plays along with Captain Crewe’s desires of spoiling the child- even when Sara unintentionally repeatedly reveals with her calm spirit that she is far more clever than the mean-spirited proprietress of the boarding school. Then, on the very day of Sara’s 11th birthday, news arrive that her father has passed away, and not only that- all of his money is lost as well.

Miss Minchin, feeling as if tricked into covering Sara’s expenses- expenses assured to be covered by the wealthy Captain Crewe- Miss Minchin takes out her wrath on the grieving child and makes her the drudge of the school, a step only slighter higher than the scullery maid Becky, whom Sara has befriended.

For years Sara suffers under the control of Minchin, doing all the tasks the servants don’t want to do, going to bed starving and cold each night.

But, try as she might, Miss Minchin couldn’t bring the clever girl down to the lowered station she thought she deserved to be in. For Sara Crewe was an expert at bolstering herself with imaginations.

When Minchin was at her worst, Sara’s proud spirit pretended she was soldier on a long and weary march. When given nothing but crumbs she shared it with her friend Mechezzidek, the rat who lived in the wall whom Sara pretended had a large family to take care of. No matter how hungry- she gave. She gave stories to a forlorn student whom the other students looked down upon for being fat and stupid and gave unheard of friendship to Becky, a mere scullery maid, who stayed in the room in the attic right next to her. She even gave away a boon she fell upon quite by accident one day while running errands- all because she believed a true Princess, like the one she imagined herself to be, is not one to complain or take things for herself when aid is needed for the populace.

One day the school becomes abuzz with the news that a wealthy man is moving next door and Sara in her clever mind quickly assigns a story to him to entertain herself in the hours after her drudgery is over, to keep her mind off her hunger. Her curiosity is even more aroused when she meets the wealthy man’s native Indian man servant and his pet monkey one evening when the monkey escapes into her attic window.

Ram Dass, the man servant, is struck by the bright child, and from that moment on, watches with silent eyes and ears every kind thing Sara does and eventually brings it to the wealthy man’s attention. Sensing they can help her, The wealthy neighbor and Ram Dass determine to bless the girl who gives so much yet is treated so poorly- Ram Dass because he knows exactly what’s going on, the wealthy man because the child reminds him of another young girl he lost and is desperate to find.

One evening Sara, possibly at her coldest and hungriest, welcomes her friend Ermengarde into her room. Ermengarde finally realizing how the kindest person in her world is being treated, promptly decides to share a basket sent to her from home, stuffed with treats and food. Delighted Sara arranges the room as a secret surprise for Ermengarde and Becky, while Ermengarde leaves to retrieve the food. When the girls gather together, Sara transports the little group as if by magic to a grand ballroom prepared for a feast, all the while staying in their drab little room. It’s a wondrous time for all the girls, trying with all the might to imagine the beautiful room right along with Sara.

Of course the evil Miss Minchin ruins it.

But perhaps she wouldn’t have been so adamant in putting the little princess in her place if she knew that her actions would become the catalyst for Sara to be blessed beyond her own very vivid imagination.

I would have loved this story as a kid, but I love it even more now. I’ve always loved a heroine I can root for and a villain I can despise- and this story delivers them! Sara is exactly the kind of girl I admired growing up and one I longed to be. Clever, pretty, just a bit odd but oh so noble. Yeah I never quite attained such nobility nor cleverness and prettiness, but I wanted to and that’s saying something I guess. :)

I was totally engaged while listening to this story and I cant wait to share it with my nieces! I highly recommend it as an entertaining read but also as a good reminder for every child- if we imagine ourselves as noble princesses- even even though the world sees us as beggars- one day we may become one… in spirit if not in truth!

“Everything’s a story. You are a story. I am a story.” // ⚡️

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أنا قصة إنسان
أنا جرح الزمان
أنا سالي سالي

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هذا المقطع الذي انحفر في ذاكرة ملايين الأطفال الذين تابعوا المسلسل الكرتوني الشهير "سالي"
المأخوذ عن رواية "الأميرة الصغيرة" لفرانسيس هودسون برنيت، ولكن باسم "سارة كرو".

كنا نحب سالي جدًا، ونتعاطف معها بشدة، وكم بكينا وتأثرنا لما مرّ بها من مآسٍ عديدة! وددنا لو استطعنا مساعدتها! أحببنا ڤيكي الطيبة، وإيرمنجارد اللطيفث المسكينة، ولوتي الصغيرة. وكم كرهنا الآنسة منشن الشريرة القاسية التي لم ترأف لحال الطفلة المسكينة! ولاڤينا القاسية أيضًا! وكرهنا كل شخص تسبب بأذى لسالي!

لم تكن سالي أو سارة مجرد شخصية كرتونية أو شخصية روائية فقط، وإنما "قصة إنسان" حقًا، إنسان يتحلى بكافة الفضائل النبيلة والحسنة، الذي أحبه الجميع لدماثة أخلاقه، وحتى حين خسر ثروته ومركزه الاجتماعي بقي كما هو وربما زاد نُبلًا وفهمًا للآخرين.
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"Whats'ever 'appens to you—whats'ever—you'd be a princess all the same—an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different."

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n  صورة الطفلة سارة كرو التي كُتبت الرواية الشهيرة عنها


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