The Editha series for little girls
Description
A Little Princess is a work by British-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, presented as a 1888 novella, a 1902 play and the 1905 eponymous children's novel. All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young girl and the prize student of a private London boarding school who is reduced to poverty and forced to endure the life of a servant under the school's cruel headmistress. The story was first published as the novella Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on this work, her publisher asked that she expand the story into a full-length novel with "the things and people that had been left out before".
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Jackanapes
In a 19th century English village, the high-spirited boy, orphaned at the Battle of Waterloo, rode his pony across the green, obedient to his aunt but creating scrapes she never thought to forbid him. He later joined the British Army and gave his life in battle to save his best friend.
The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers
Through kindness a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.