The secret garden

298 pages

Published Aug. 6, 1971 by Dell Pub. Co..

OCLC Number:
603555

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A lonely orphan discovers the wonders of a mysterious garden and befriends her invalid cousin.

50 editions

Still inspirational

When my sister spotted on Facebook that I had signed up for the Classics Club Challenge, she kindly lent me three classics from her bookshelves: The Secret Garden, Heidi and Animal Farm (I do know Animal Farm isn't a kids' book!) The first two I haven't read in well over thirty years and I hadn't read Animal Farm at all so I was keen to start them. I remembered some of the illustrations in a Ladybird copy of The Secret Garden and am sure we must have had a full text version too, however a lot of the storyline details seemed new to me this time around.

The Secret Garden is, of course, a children's book, but I was happy reading it as an adult and I didn't think the prose style was particularly younger than some modern young adult novels I've read in the past few years! The adult …

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Subjects

  • Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Gardens -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Children with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
  • People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Friendship in children -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Loneliness -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Yorkshire (England) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • England -- Juvenile fiction.