Oh, how I wish I could have read The Secret Garden when I was eight. It would have been right up there with my other favourite books.Mary Lennox is a sullen, spoiled child that has absolutely no people skills. After she is sent to live with her absent uncle in Yorkshire she discovers a secret garden...
I absolutely love this book...I love it so much that I went searching for the movie so I can share the story with my kids.When I was a kid, I saw the movie long before I ever read the book...I am shocked at how accurate the movie is! Most of the time, movies like to spice things up and make things m...
Whenever I visited my grandmother from a young age, there were two stories I always read. This was one of them. Reading this brings back so many memories. It's so well done, the description isn't over the top and yet you get such a sense of everything in it - the food they ate, what a moor is and wo...
I started this 2 years ago on my ipod touch and it was a good choice for occasional reading. I love the messages of empowerment and appreciation of nature, and the ending is so satisfying. The little section from the robin's pov seemed a little out of place.
The illustrations in this 100th anniversary edition are lovely.I don't know why I didn't read this as a child. It's a feel-good book, and I liked it, even if they was a slight hint of moralizing in the end.
This is one of my most favorite books from childhood. I recently just listened to the audio book, read by Finola Hughes and while I really didn't care much for her voices, it was fun to listen to the story instead of read it.
What a delightful story to read. It is impossible to put down once one has started reading it. And to think that this story was originally written for children, I could have been fooled. I don't think children nowadays read as many words as they are presented in this book. It always leaves me in awe...
What more could a kid ask for? A mystery, a snotty kid getting to know a bit more about the world, a not-invalid, someone called Dickon (is that actually a name?), grumpy Uncle, and a cracking garden.I love this book - and the film adaptation is wonderful too. THIS is my perfect example of childre...
What more could a kid ask for? A mystery, a snotty kid getting to know a bit more about the world, a not-invalid, someone called Dickon (is that actually a name?), grumpy Uncle, and a cracking garden.I love this book - and the film adaptation is wonderful too. THIS is my perfect example of childre...
Update 21/11/12 (ooh, palindromic date!) - I really enjoyed it! A lovely, heart-warming story, a bit laboured and repetitive at times but still good. If I'm really honest, I enjoyed the first half, before Colin entered the story, a little more than the second. The second half is where it started ...
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