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The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound edition) {Book Review}

And the secret garden
bloomed and bloomed
and every morning
revealed new miracles

The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble cover)

Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrated by Charles Robinson
Published by Barnes & Noble
ISBN 9781435158184

The Secret Garden

On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald’s estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that both improves her health and raises her spirits. Ultimately, the secret garden proves beneficial not only to Mary, but to her sickly cousin Colin. Nurtured with love and tenderness, the secret garden proves it has the power to heal the heart.

First published in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is a much-loved classic of children’s literature. This illustrated edition, with full-colour plates by Charles Robinson, features an elegant bonded-leather binding, a satin-ribbon bookmark, distinctive gilded edging, and decorative end papers. Decorative, durable, and collectible, it’s a book that will be cherished by readers of all ages.

The Secret GArden (Barnes & Noble edition) illustrations

Boo Roo and Tigger Too’s thoughts…

This leather-bound edition of The Secret Garden is a true keepsake book. Not only does it contain the classic story accompanied by some wonderful illustrations but it is beautifully presented with gold-edged pages and bookmark all encased in hardback, leather-bound cover than adds that sense of luxury and classic feel.

Having loved The Secret Garden story as a child I was very keen for Roo to read to see whether she also fell under the magical spell of the classic tale. Handing over the book to Roo she was so proud to be given a book that in her words was ‘a very grown up book which is just like your Jane Austen book‘. Over the Christmas period we have been taking it in turns to read several pages to each other so that we could enjoy the story together. As we moved through the book I could see Roo falling in love with the story especially when she would ask ‘can we read just one more page’ as we approached bedtime.

A beautifully present book containing a classic tale and one that would make a wonderful gift.

Price and availability

The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound edition) is available from Amazon and all other good book retailers, priced at around £15.00.

Giveaway

To share the classic story of The Secret Garden Boo Roo and Tigger Too are lucky enough to have an additional copy of the book to giveaway.

The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound edition) #Giveaway

To enter simply tell me what your favourite story was when you were a child, then complete the Gleam widget below:

The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound edition)

Disclosure: We received a copy of The Secret Garden FOC for the purpose of review

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Comments

  8. Mine would be a toss-up between Little Women and What Katy Did -I’d be hard pushed to pick just one of them!

  26. This was one of my fav – along with the Worst Witch Series, Secret Seven and Famous Five

  27. when I was very young it was “wind in the willows” then as an older child I loved “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”

  39. I always remember The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ by C. S. Lewis as being the first ‘proper’ book I read on my own as a young child

  80. Tricky – the Narnia books, Anne of Green Gables series, Little Women series, The Secret Garden. But I think I’ll go for another Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Lost Prince.

  89. don’t remember when I was really young but have memories of my mum and dad reading, but when I got older it was ‘A year without Micheal’ my sister a few years ago found it on Amazon and got it for me and I read it again

  96. It was Alice in Wonderland because Lewis Carroll shared my surname and that made me feel really proud and I thought I was Alice. It wasn’t until I got older that I discovered the author used a pen name 😉 Still love Alice thought. x

  122. I have always been a real bookworm, so there are so many I can’t choose! I loved this book and read it to my own children a couple of years ago, also loved What Katy Did, Heidi, Pollyanna and so many others. If pushed I would say I think, Anne of Avonlea by L M Montgomery and all the subsequent books in that series which I started reading pre teens (I still go back and read them now)…but then I am a fan of love and romance in all its many forms and all of these books have a very healthy dose of these things x

  130. I had a giant book full of loads of stories and my favourite was called “Androcles and the Lion”

  137. Over sea, Under stone by Susan Cooper….for me it summed up the magic and mystery of my childhood holidays to Cornwall and even though Cornwall will never be quite as rural or innocent as described in the book the magic of the place will always last with me….

  142. As a child my favourite story was the prime minsiters brain – which was the sequel to the demon headmaster!

  153. My Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit by Tolken, I still have these books that I read as a teenager and they are some of my most tresured items

  164. What a beautiful book, I loved this book as a child and cant wait to read it to my children. This keepsake would be a perfect family heirloom 🙂

  172. I did love the Secret Garden the most out of all books .I wanted to be be just like dicken and be able to talk to wild animals

  178. My favourite book as a child was the Alice in Wonderland. I loved the idea of falling down the rabbit hole and always used to pretend I had the little vials for Drink Me and little snacks for Eat Me – I was always disappointed when they didn’t have any effect. I was nicknamed Cheshire Cat for my great big smile but I think I would have done better at the Mad Hatter’s tea party!

  184. Funnily enough it was actually this one, I loved the film too and would watch it repeatedly.

    We had a big garden with a gate through to our neighbours that was always locked and I would imagine it was like the secret garden in the book.

    I would absolutely love to win this!

    Hannah

  188. Enid Blyton…her stories were magical and The Faraway Tree series was my absolute favourite

  189. I didnt have a favourite single story but I did love Enid Blyton and all the school books – starting with the naughtiest girl in the school and moving on to The Twins at St Clares and mallory Towers – I always wanted to go to boarding school it sounded much more fun than myschool!

  191. I loved the Noddy stories. We lived with Grandma in the early 1950s and she taught me to read before I started school using books she bought at a jumble sale. She was responsible for giving me a lifelong passion for books and reading. Back then we couldn’t afford new books. Now I have my own library and cannot bear to part with any of my wonderful books 🙂

  194. A a young child, Noddy. As an older child, Mallory Towers. Yeah I had a thing about Enid Blyton.

  200. Charlie and the Chocolate factory – still love it now much to my partners amusement and I’m 46!

  206. I loved Rumplestilstskin,this was over fifty years ago and there wasn’t the same choice as there is now.I love reading to my grandchildren and there are so many books to choose from,we love the Grufallo.I’d love to win this as a special addition to our bookcase,this was actually my daughters favourite story and I’d love to see if my grand-daughter loves it too x

  219. When I was younger, I used to like reading all sorts of books, but strangely enough, the secret garden really was one of my favourite stories, along with the railway children.

  238. The Secret Garden was a great favourite, along with Enid Blyton’s Pip the Pixie and all of the Noddy books.

  240. My favourite books when I was younger were the Magic Faraway Tree stories by Enid Blyton!

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