Anna and the King of Siam : The Book That Inspired the Musical and Film The King and I

from MrsLee

Another of my favorites. Anna has been widowed and with her young son, determines to make her own way by taking a job as a governess/teacher to the King of Siam's many children. She goes as a teacher of Western thought, though her own thinking is much changed as she rubs up against Eastern ways o...

from mcdenis

This is a gracious encounter with Thailand of the past. The author has an elegant style and the little illustrations at the beginning of the chapters make it a delight to read. I received an electronic copy in return for an honest review.

from Nakla

It's so colorful fiction.I like to red it even

from FicusFan

My final RL book group read for the month. Historical fiction, about a RL woman who went to Siam (modern Thailand) in Victorian times to teach the King's Children. This book was the basis for the play and the movies. It was also oddly a fictional book that the author based (re-wrote) on two non-f...

from judyg54

This is a book that if you read it, you will always watch the movies made about this book in a totally different way, because the movies don't give a true view of what life was really like between Ann the the King of Siam. I also did not realize that Anna was a real person who lived in Siam for m...