Product Description

When newly orphaned Mary Lennox arrives from India to live with her uncle, everyone at Misselthwaite Manor thinks her a most disagreeable child. Then one day she discovers a garden - a secret garden, locked and hidden for ten long years. With the help of Dickon and her spoilt, invalid cousin, Colin, Mary brings the garden back to life; and as she does, the mystery behind it is revealed. "The Secret Garden" has been cherished by generations of readers since its publication in 1911, when it was heralded as an instant classic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #327889 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Format: Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 280 pages

About the Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote over forty books in her lifetime, including many for adults, but she is most famous for her children's books Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, most of which was written in a walled rose garden during a stay at an English country house. Inga Moore is a distinguished author and illustrator of children's books. Her illustrated titles include Dragons and Other Beasts (9781406306767), Horse Tales (9780744592788) and an acclaimed version of The Wind in the Willows (9780744575538). She lives in Gloucestershire.

Customer Reviews

beautiful version of classic book
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.
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?

The most beautiful book I have ever seen
I loved this book as a child and wanted a hardback copy for my bookshelf. The illustrations in this book are so beautiful that it brought a smile to my face. I was expecting one or two pictures at most, but every single page has pictures. There were also four prints of pictures from the book that I was not expecting. All the illustrations were exactly as I imagined as a child. I'm not sure I would let a child near this book though!:)