And the secret garden
bloomed and bloomed
and every morning
revealed new miracles
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.
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.
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
242 Comments
A book of short stories called the Necklace of Raindrops
I loved The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton xx
I love the three billy goats gruff x
Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
The Happy Prince
Watership Down was one of my favourites
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Mine would be a toss-up between Little Women and What Katy Did -I’d be hard pushed to pick just one of them!
Alice in Wonderland, i could read that endlessly as a child.
Loved the Secret Island by Enid Blyton
Tarka The Otter
The Secret garden was one of my favourites but also Watership Down.
I loved Alice in Wonderland and The Secret Garden.
the famous five books
I Loved reading enid blyton books i couldnt say which was my favourite though !
it was a book my mum used to read called mervyn the mouse
Pippy long stocking
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Enid Blyton’s Famous Five & Secret Seven
i loved mr pinkwhistle
The lion witch and the wardrobe
Famous five or secret seven – in fact most enid blyton books!
danger mouse anuals
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Enid Blyton, the Far Away Tree
This was one of my fav – along with the Worst Witch Series, Secret Seven and Famous Five
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”
Always Love The Meg & Mog Story Books 🙂
scruffy dog pete
would have to be the very hungry caterpillar
Georges Marvellous Medicine
The railway children
Charlie and the chocolate factory
I loved the Joan Aiken books – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was one of my favourites!
I’d read the Narnia books over and over again. Particularly Prince Caspian.
The worst witch series
The Magician’s Nephew
famous five or secret seven
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
Mine was Madeline – All those little girls doing everything in 2 straight lines!”
Ballet shoes by Noel Steatfield
Five Go Down To The Sea, by Enid Blyton was my favourite.
The Wind in the Willows
Stuart Little was my favourite 🙂
Five Go to Mystery Moor
Five minutes peace! The elephant mummy who just wants five minutes peace! This is now me!
the CS lewis books
The lion the witch and the wardrobe x
herman melville’s moby dick
Black Beauty was my favourite
My favourite book was The Secret Garden. I read it many times as a child.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Velveteen Rabbit
i liked the brambly hedge books xx
Not Now Bernard!
The famous five books.
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Peter Pan, used to love the book, my nan brought it for me
Three Billy Goats Gruff – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe
The ugly duckling
Goldilocks and the three bears <3
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton – fabulous!
Charlie and the chocolate factoty
My favourite story was the 3 little pigs…I was just in love with these cute animals!
The Lion The Witch and the wardrobe
I loved the secret even books.
Alice in Wonderland!
The Famous Five 🙂
My favourite book was The Magical Faraway Tree!
My favourite story was little red riding hood!
I loved any of the Amelia Jane books.
My favourite book as a child was The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark.
Goldilocks and the three bears.
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
I loved Carbonnel & the wishing chair
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web!
Pinocchio. Ladybird book. My nan used to read it then have to re read it
the BFG by roald dahl
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.
The faraway tree
Lion the witch and the wardrobe
The faraway tree by Enid Blyton
it was a book my grandad use to read to us called Timothy and friends.
I used to LOVE The Secret Garden and would read it over and over again!
charlie and the chocolate factory was a firm favourite of mine xx
Oh my, mine was the Secret Garden its the loveliest story and the thought of having a secret garden, it has always been a dream of mine. x
I loved Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree books, I’ve still got them!
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
The Treasure Hunters, Enid Blyton
the twins at st clares
the magic faraway tee. still have my copies xx
The faraway tree Enid Blyton
Always Alice in Wonderland, still is too.
Boy by Roald Dahl
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
The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Faraway Tree
I loved the lion the witch and the wardrobe
Winnie the pooh
I loved the goosebumps books and still have them
The hungry caterpillar x
I love the Wizard of Oz
Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree!
Enid Blyton’s Hurrah For The Circus.
I loved readying the Borrowers tales.
I loved The Little Princess.
Charlotte’s Web
my favourite was Alice in wonderland x.
Matilda was my favourite 🙂
Heidi – I love a story that makes me both cry and smile.
The animals of farthing wood.
Heidi……oh how I loved to live in the alps like her!
Mine was The Hobbit
This was one of my favourite stories when I was younger! Such a gorgeous looking edition. Thanks for sharing with #ReadWithMe
I loved The Worst Witch!
Cinderella for me. Sooo wanted to wear a beautiful dress
The lion the witch and the wardrobe!
The Silver Sword
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Mathilda by Roald Dahl.
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
Enid Blytons Faraway Tree
The treasure seekers
I remember my parents reading The Wind in The Willows with me 🙂
I loved james and the giant peach
i used to love stig of the dump
I loved black beauty
Alice in Wonderland was my favourite 🙂
I had a giant book full of loads of stories and my favourite was called “Androcles and the Lion”
I liked owl babies when i was little
any enid blyton
I loved Oliver Twist and the hobbit. My grandad read them to me xx
I liked The Rockingdown Mystery by Enid Blyton.
I have never read this book, but it is definitely on a very long list of books I need to read #ToyTuesday
The Faraway Tree
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….
My favourite was bfg
I was into Secret Seven by Enid Blyton – then Famous Five
My favorite story was Herbert the Hedgehog
I loved The Wishing Chair.
As a child my favourite story was the prime minsiters brain – which was the sequel to the demon headmaster!
My favourite story was always Heidi
Moo baa la la la! A favourite with my daughter now!
the secret seven!!
The magic porridge pot
I loved several – Noddy books, Roald Dahl Books and another Enid Blyton series The Far Away Tree.
My favourite was and still is Alice In Wonderland.
I loved Peter Pan & also the Borrowers.
The BFG was my favourite!
Treasure Island was my favourite
I loved anything involving The Famous Five!
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
I loved the Railway Children
I used to love the enid blyton famous five books
I loved ‘A Little Princess’
my family and other animals gerald durrell
I liked Matilda
The magic faraway tree by Enid Blyton
The Railway Children
charlie and the chocolate factory was my absolute favourite 🙂
Mine was “Alice in wonderland” 🙂
The Famous Five and the Naughtiest Girl in School
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 🙂
Heidi was my absolute favourite book, it still is! xx
Georges Marvellous Medicine
I quite liked The Secret Seven books by Enid Blyton
I loved the Christopher Robin book I had
I loved the Railway Children and now so does our little girl x
Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree
The Children of Green Knowe
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
Stig of the dump was my fav! Thanks for the chance x
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Loved the Chalet School Stories by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Hobbit – still my favourite now.
I loved Enid Blyton Malory Towers books
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!
tom’s midnight garden 🙂
Winnie The Pooh
Where the wild things are and when I was bigger swallows and amazons
I always loved Treasure Island!
My favourite childhood story was ‘The Faraway Tree’ by Enid Blyton
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
I loved The Hobbit
I loved reading Little Women as a child. Tbh I still do now
I loved the Narnia books
Enid Blyton…her stories were magical and The Faraway Tree series was my absolute favourite
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!
Any Enid Blyton books
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 🙂
I loved the puddle lane books
The Little Matchgirl
A a young child, Noddy. As an older child, Mallory Towers. Yeah I had a thing about Enid Blyton.
the secret garden
Carrie’s War
Georges Marvellous Medicine
The magic faraway tree x
The Magic Faraway Tree
Charlie and the Chocolate factory – still love it now much to my partners amusement and I’m 46!
I loved The Magic Faraway Tree Books
My favourite was ‘The Faraway Tree’ by Enid Blyton
The famous five books
Stig of the Dump 🙂
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Caroll
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
I loved treasure island and the skelinton (in the dark dark woods)
Love the Lion Witch And the Waldrobe
enid blytons famous five series
My favourite was The Magic Faraway Tree
I loved Enid Blyton, especially the Wishing Chair
The magic faraway tree by Enid Blyton always brought excitement into my bedtime story
Alice in Wonderland was always my favourite.
Alice in Wonderland
Fabulous. Treasure Island
The Nightwatchmen by Helen Cresswell. It is a bit spooky.
Alice in wonderland
James & The Giant Peach – it was captivated by its magic.
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.
Famous Five – Five Run Away Together. xx
The Velveteen rabbit, and it still makes me cry to this day!
The water babies
The famous five books
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder were my favourites and still are.
The Wishing Chair – Enid Blyton
The Ugly Duckling
Mine was the magic faraway tree 🙂
enid blytons famous five series
It was the Secret Garden, its amazing & a classic
My favourite was Matilda.
This is one of my favourite books from when I was a child.
Mallory towers by Enid blyton
The narnia chronicles. Still love them now 🙂
I know it’s going back a bit, but I always loved “Heidi”
Enid Blyton – The Faraway Tree
I loved the Faraway Tree
I love Heidi <3 xx
The Secret Garden was a great favourite, along with Enid Blyton’s Pip the Pixie and all of the Noddy books.
Harry Potter – and I still love it!
My favourite books when I was younger were the Magic Faraway Tree stories by Enid Blyton!
Mine was Esio Trot
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton