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| The Secret Garden | 
 enlarge | Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Creator: Inga Moore
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: £15.99
New (7) from £15.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 99058
Format: Special Edition
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Gift ed
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0744586283
EAN: 9780744586282
ASIN: 0744586283
Publication Date: September 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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beautiful version of classic book February 22, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved this book when I was a child and have looked around for a while at various different illustrated editions. This one is absolutely lovely and a real bargain at this price. It is the first version i have seen where the illustrations live up to the images in my head. Gorgeous full page illustrations and also lots of small ones on most pages. A beautiful book.
The Seceret garden is vividly brought to life with beautiful timeless illustrations that draw you right in. September 15, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
As a child this was one of my favourite books, read and re-read until my copy was beyond repair. The up-lifting story of a grumpy spoilt little girl sent from India to live at a big but lonely old manor in the English Countryside is a classic and deservedly so. Mary Lennox mellows as her friendships develop especially that with Dickon, a down-to-earth and good-hearted country boy, and Colin, Mary's indulged and sickly cousin hidden away in the depths of the old house, who also comes to find happiness.
The story is intelligently written with three-dimensional characters, the speech of the servants is presented with their dialect/accents in tact, and the children behave as real children would. Written in the early twentieth century, there's much to provoke discussion with today's children about how children lived and were treated a hundred years ago, the different lives and expectations of the servants and their families to those to the manor born, as well as those in Colonial India.
I was thrilled to come across this beautifully illustrated edition (in an approximately A4 format) with gorgeous timeless pictures which reflect perfectly the mood of the story and the era in which it was set. They also serve to make the book look attractive and appealing to the children of this generation. There's a picture on the majority of double page spreads, a mixture of black and white line drawings and a naturalists pictures of fauna and flora interspersed with ethereal misty full-colour illustrations that really pull you into a different world, that of the secret garden.
A book to truly treasure. Please please can we have Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess equally beautifully illustrated next too?
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