![]() ![]() This is a story about what happens at Miss Minchin's Seminary after Sara Crewe leaves it behind. What I didn't know was whether it would be a reasonable sequel to its predecessor, whether it would have anything to do in tone and character development with the things that happen in that book. So I knew that this would be a good book, as indeed it is. ![]() Which is one of the best children's books of the past decade or so and stands proudly with writers like Elizabeth Enright. If most writers were to write a sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, I should look at them doubtfully, over my glasses, and try to be polite in the face of my doubts, and worry about whether or not to read the thing, and so on.īut this is Hilary McKay, and she wrote Saffy's Angel. ![]()
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