" Little Lord Fauntleroy is not in the same class with A Secret Garden and A Little Princess due to a lack of character development in the main protagonist. Little Lord Fauntleroy the boy is portrayed as so very naive that he comes across as a bit vapid and dull, in spite of being repeatedly described as intelligent, bright and mature and the like. The story itself is truly about the old man, his grandfather, and how this idiot-genius of a boy changes his relation without being remotely changed himself, and that story is childish but fun. "
— Anna, 1/28/2014