A little princess

This would not have been my first choice for read-aloud reading material but A) I don't have a ton of choices readily available (I'm currently in Sweden after all), and B) it's a old favorite of my wife's and she'd bought a copy recently. So, I found myself reading this 100-year-old story to the kids. At first I couldn't help inwardly rolling my eyes at the overwrought nature of the story and it's perfect little heroine. But as the titular Sara Crewe's fortunes take a turn for the worse, it wasn't so bad and both my kids were hooked. (Honestly, lately they've been hooked on whatever I've been reading to them.) Both my 7-year-old girl and my 10-year-old boy got caught up in the story and would blurt out ideas about the characters. As the tale came to a close even my old cynical self felt moved by the charity shown by Sara Crewe to those less fortunate than herself. (So that's two books by this author I've read now! Huh.)