Diana: The Peoples Princess Hb

by Richard Wood and Richard Wood

Book Overview

Sensitive treatments recall the trials and triumphs of two remarkable -- and vastly different -- role models in easy-to-read photo essays. Time lines and chronologies summarize highlights for young researchers.Young readers can follow Princess Diana from her painful childhood to her rise to royalty to her final days focused on bringing relief to lepers, AIDS victims, and those threatened by land mines.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817239987
• ISBN13: 9780817239985
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Raintree
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

This book is written for the young, but all ages will enjoy.

This is a delightful and charming story of Diana which begins with the Spencer family. Diana was born into an aristocratic family; however, she was thirteen years of age when she became Lady Diana.Diana loved her father deelpy and was upset when he married Raine, his second wife in 1976. At age nine, Diana's father sent her to boarding school. On holiday from school, it was not unusual for the younger royal children, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, to visit the Spencers and use their private simming pool. In Diana's own words, "I loved being at school. I was very naughty in the sense of always wanting to muck about rather sit tight looking at the four walls of the schoolroom."This book takes one from Diana's early years, school years, her royal romance and engagement, the fairy-tale wedding, the Shy-Di era through her various roles - working princess, motherhood, hier hidden pain and suffering, her years with the press, the breakdown of her marriage, going public with her marriage problems, her work with aids, cancer, landmines, her work with street people, her work with leprosy, and her tragic death.Of all these many roles, Diana relished the role of Motherhood the most. She resented the time she had to be separated from her children for any length of time. Diana's friend, Rosa Monckton, once stated in an England newspaper, "Diana had huge courage, and whenever things got too much for her she would say to herself: 'Diana, remember you're a Spencer' ( she was far prouder of this than being royal), and she would then get on with whatever she had to do." Page 35.Each short role is told in words and accompanied by beautiful colored pictures on each. Diana had admired Mother Teresa for a long time. The last time they met was in New York City in June of l997. Diana and Mother Teresa were different, yet when they met in Calcutta, India, they shared a common love of poor and outcast people. Mother Teresa once told Diana, "To heal other people you have to suffer yourself." When Mother Teresa was told of Diana's death, she described Diana as "a very great friend who was in love with the poor." page 39.Unfortunately, Mother Teresa died the day before Princess Diana's funeral services, and the world lost two outstanding ladies within one week.When Diana was in Bosnia, Lord Deedes said, "One boy took off his boots to show what his feet looked like. But he didn't have any feet left. Diana picked him up in her arms. There were no photographers there. She was not showing off. It was a genuine impulse ... instinctive," P. 41There is a glossary of terms on P. 46 to help the youngster who might not know the meanings of some terminology which is used.A beautiful story of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, which is written in such a manner that all people can read and enjoy. This refers to the paperback edition. 48 pages. 81/2"x101/2"