Review
23 out of 24 BookBrowse readers rated Little Princes 4 or 5 stars! Here's what they have to say:
Told in equal proportions of humor, compassion, and honesty, the story relates how the author came to be involved with a children's home in Nepal at the beginning of a yearlong journey of travel around Asia and Southeast Asia. The children at the home are not orphans, but rather "disappeared" children, sent away by their parents to avoid conscription into the Maoist army in Nepal (Priscilla M). Written with humor and page-turning suspense,
Little Princes follows the author's growth as a person from an adventure-seeking college kid to the founder of a worldwide organization. The tales of the children's antics are delightful (Mindy). Although the author didn't set out to devote his entire life to aiding the lost children in Nepal, he followed his...
Beyond the Book
According to Next Generation Nepal's website, the 1996-2006 Nepalese civil war between government forces and the insurgent Communist Party of Nepal claimed 12,000 lives and devastated the economy; and, in remote areas of the country, the Maoist rebels used intimidation and even murder to control villages and abduct children into their army. Even though the conflict officially ended in 2006, child traffickers have continued to prey on rural villagers' concerns for their children by deceiving families with promises of safety for their children and attendance at top boarding schools in the Kathmandu Valley - but the sad reality is that the children who are taken from their homes are often kept as slaves or beggars, taken to illegal orphanages or, in some cases, are given...
