Book Review: “Little Princes”

Book Review: “Little Princes”

      Little Princess by Conor Grennan is a widely known book based on a true story of author’s life.  The book focuses on how Conor greatly changed his life style and at the same time improved that of the Nepalese orphans. The book tells how Conor got sick and tired from the job he had been doing for about eight years and decided to take a holiday for a worldwide trip. For him, the holiday meant to spend part of his savings on visiting various interesting parts of the world. Conor thought to make a story that he would tell people and they would remember him. He therefore decided to pick one the poorest countries in the world and volunteer to help the orphans.

Conor developed a lot of interest to his venture and a strong affection to the children that he had sponsored. His adventure did not end there, so he travelled all around the world. However, the priorities of sponsoring children soon shifted to the little princes whom he keeps remembering every now. Despite the point that his initial intention was to spend his time as a volunteer in helping the poor children and make his fun, he later realized that his valuable time could be spent helping the unfortunate orphans of Nepal. That is why Conor and his friend Farid decided to start a charitable home where they could keep the needy children and later assist them in reuniting with their parents. 

The narrative of his adventurous story appears boring in the beginning, but with time people develop a strong liking to his stories. He maintains the spirit of a good story-teller by putting lots of humor and using sarcastic words until people get amused. Indeed, the ideas of Conor are wonderfully presented in his book Little Princess. He has tried to expose his ideas to his audience so they would greatly admire him. The idea of reuniting children to their parents moves many of Conor’s readers to tears. The effort of the author to start children’s home and a base to find their parents shames those who practice child trafficking. At one instance Conor narrates how seven children were overwhelmed by joy after reuniting with their parents. The author has included some pictorial presentations to express the joy of the parents. It was so much encouraging for the Nepalese to maintain the spirit and energy for waiting until they got back to their parents.

Any reader who is not indifferent would rather recommend this book. The worldwide trip bore fruits. The author expressed his willingness to help the needy, so his adventures of visiting new places turned to be the adventures of helping the needy. The author has taught his audience many new things. Some of the readers have never heard of Nepal and its civil war, child trafficking and many other inhuman acts around the world. Many readers are now aware of such evil deeds. Personally, I may not forget to thank Conor Grennan for his good artistic work.