Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. New York: Sterling 2010. ISBN-9781402778728. Hardback. USD $19.95.
Awards/Honors:
- often noted as one of the best children's books of the twentieth century
-2003: was listed at number 51 on the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) survey The Big Read.
-2007: online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."
-2012: It was one of the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time in a poll by School Library Journal.
Annotation:
Mary Lennox finds the key that not only opens the door to a secret garden but to the hearts of her new friends and family. Life is not over for Mary, it is just beginning.
Booktalk:
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world
is a garden.”
Most ten-year-old little girls don’t lose both of her
parents at such a young age. And if this did happen, most ten-year-old girls
would be sad. But not spoiled, rotten, snobby ten-year-old Mary Lennox. When
shipped from India to England to live with her only living relative, an uncle
who is grieving the death of his wife, Mary boxes up her feelings and explores
her new home, bitter and lonely.
Mary not only finds a hidden garden, lifeless, gloomy, dark,
and gray, but she finds a hidden cousin as well, 10-year-old Colin, living in his bed his entire life. Can Mary share her secret garden, now flourishing with
color and life after she spreads her tender loving care with her new cousin?
How does she get her uncle to come home and live his life with his neglected son and his
new niece? Mary’s new mission is to mend their broken hearts, together as a
family, through the magic and love of a secret garden.
In 1993, this novel was created into a children's movie:
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