Book Review of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Name of Book: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett ISBN: 0-87406-575-5 Publisher: Worthington Press Type of book: Children, garden, mysteries, India, magic, 1800s, Yorkshire, England, India, unwanted children, exercise, nature, playtime Year it was published: 1911 Summary: Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten yea...