The basic point in the book is that as Mary gets happier, she starts to eat more: all that work in the garden has given her an appetite for the first time in her life.
But I think A Little Princess probably would have been a better Burnett book for food, because food is all over that book. Sara's quest to find good food for Becky, the food at Sara's tragic birthday party, the buns that Sara buys with a fourpence she buys in the street... and of course the two feasts at the end.
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Date: 2015-11-11 01:34 pm (UTC)But I think A Little Princess probably would have been a better Burnett book for food, because food is all over that book. Sara's quest to find good food for Becky, the food at Sara's tragic birthday party, the buns that Sara buys with a fourpence she buys in the street... and of course the two feasts at the end.