&quot;A Little Princess" is a 1905 children&apos;s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett&apos;s 1888 serialised novel entitled «Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin&apos;s», which was published in «St. Nicholas Magazine». According to Burnett, she had been composing a play based on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed. The publisher asked her to publish a new, revised story of the novella, producing the novel.
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Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its «Teachers&apos; Top 100 Books for Children.» It was one of the «Top 100 Chapter Books» of all time in a 2012 poll by «School Library Journal».