Book Review of "Little Princes"

The book starts with a man named Coner Grennan who decides to take a break from working and go on a trip around the world. He started his year long journey in Nepal where Coner would volunteer at an orphanage for two months. Upon arrival in Kathmandu, Nepal he was surprised by the military that seemed to be everywhere watching over the people. Coner would soon realize that this military protection was needed because at the time the Nepali government was in a power struggle with the Maoist rebels. Coner took part in a week long volunteer orientation before arriving at his volunteer destination. Once he walked through the blue gates of Little Princes Orphanage he was greeted by the group of kids who would change Coner's life forever.

Coner struggled at first making the transition to life in Nepal but soon became comfortable with the situation he was in. During his two months at Little Princes Coner was expected to care for these kids. He was nervous at first because he had never really worked with kids before, but over the course of these two months he became attached to these kids and treated them as his own. Coner's last night at Little Princes he was having trouble saying good bye, and the kids kept asking him when he was going to be back. He told them he would return in one year.

After Coner's year long journey he found himself back in the United States remembering all the kids smiling faces and at that moment he decided to keep his promise and return to Nepal. Coner returned to Little Princes and enjoyed his stay even more then the first time. This time however he met more children who had been affected by child trafficking going on in Nepal, and he knew he had to help them. He first attempted at getting the seven children he met into Little Princes, but they were already at full capacity. He then found a place located in Kathmandu who was willing to take in the children. Around this time is when Coner had to return back to the United States. Coner left Nepal behind thinking that those seven children were going to be taken care of and were safe, and when he received and email informing him that they were not safe. Coner was devastated. He responded by making a promise he would rescue these children, and he created his own non-profit organization for children in Kathmandu. He then went back to Nepal and bought his own orphanage and began rescuing orphaned children. He also did something else that no one had done before. Coner would not only care for the children, but he also attempted at finding their parents who the children had not seen for years.

In my opinion this book captured Coner's emotions towards his experiences very well. Throughout the whole book I seemed to be captured by the words, because of the great impact they had on my own emotions. I could relate to all of Coner's decisions made whether it was his decision to go back after his year of traveling the world, starting his own orphanage home, or making his risky journey to Humla for the first time. The emotion presented in the text was outstanding. I would definitely recommend this book to others. Not simply because it is a good book but it helps you realize what is going on in this crazy world. Before reading this book I had no idea of all the tragedy that has taken place in Nepal. I began to have another look on how privileged we are in the United States and that there are still countries in this world who are not modernized to the level of larger countries and face hardships every day to a level Americans could never imagine.