Burnett Books

As someone who has heard Ken Boa speak and heard the enthusiasm he has for God and teaching the Word, I would highly recommend this book for self-study or group study.

Not only are you walked through Proverbs, but you are asked pointed questions that make you think about the application of the text as well.

I used this as a textbook for a film class I taught last year and the class loved it. The book contains solid biographical information and it's really fun to read. Plus, author Horowitz offers some very perceptive insights into women's comedy. My only criticism is that footnotes would have been really helpful because the students wanted to follow up on some of the sources -- but overall I highly recommend it.

Excellent reading for children Story helps to build personal morals and shows life in early England. Will appeal to little girls who of course always daydream to be "little princesses",as the reworking of this book in later years is by that title. Another great work by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

My girls (aged 3 and 5) love the exquisite illustrations in this lush book. I know purists abhor adridged editions, but for my girls the story is plenty long enough, and the rich pictures make every page of this book magical. The language is for older children, but the format makes the story accessible to pre- and early readers.

I tend to collect children's literature as much for the illustration as for the literary content. The Secret Garden is a classic and is well-known and reviewed elsewhere as a piece of writing. This particular edition, illustrated by Inga Moore, is also visually exquisite. Slightly oversize, it gives space for an illustrator/designer to concoct something wonderful. There are illustrations on almost every page... almost. They leave the odd two facing pages illustration-free, bringing the turning the page to be like the joyful surprise of entering the secret garden yourself. Some illustrations are full page, some are strips along the edges, some are little close-up vignette boxes as if examining individual flowers. Some are pen and ink botanica, some are creatures scurrying across the pages, some are like watermark backdrops. Most are full color and highly detailed and accurate. The story is rightly a classic for its wonderfully transforming and healing relationships. The illustration is a joy to match and highly complements the book. This is a special current edition to have in your library, even if you have another.

The Secret Garden is the story of a little girl, Mary, who is sent to live in at her uncles large, lonely manor house, hidden on the cold English moors, after leading the life of a spoiled princess in India. She is considered spoilt, and disagreable by the servants and housekeeper, until the day she discovers a key, to a locked garden...
What family secrets will Mary reveal???
Read this fabulous book to find out!!!

This book is so beautiful! i love reading it and whenever i find it after a long time of being put away i feel as though i've just found a friend. besides the fantastic story by Frances Burnett, the llustrations by Graham Rust are just wonderfully detailed and life-like, so much that just by looking at them i feel as though i was in the book itself. no matter how hard i study the pictures it seems as though i always find something new that i hadn't seen the last time. The full page illustrations are beautifully colored and always have a hidden feeling in them. i will treasure and care for this book for as long as i possibly can.

To be ten or twelve and reading this is heaven. To have your ten or twelve year old read it, is also heavenly. Read it in winter, and spring will be in your heart before it is through!

The tale of a stubborn child who changes with the help of some unlikely friends to work miracles in a secluded garden: it is a story of healing and adventure, without coming off sappy or silly. Remarkable in its telling, it is timeless in its appeal. For those who might not have read it, The Secret Garden has a "Harry Potter" sort of flavor, with characters that are so well written you might feel you know them. I read it more than once as a child, and as an adult I re-read it every few years.

Very few children's books start with a Cholera epidemic. This makes me wonder whether public outcry would ensue if The Secret Garden were released today instead of 99 years ago. Contemporary publishers would recoil at the very idea of publishing a book whose first chapter describes the death of a young girl's entire family in India, leaving only herself and a few servants.

After the death of young Mary's family, the servants contact her closest living relative: a widower uncle, who lives in a large mansion in England. She is sent to live with him. With the exception of the household servants, Mary has only her dour uncle and a sickly cousin for companions. She is not even supposed to visit her cousin, Colin, as he is considered too sickly for childish things.

Without much else to do, Mary wanders the premises and begins to learn about the local flora and fauna. In her explorations, she happens upon a garden, closed with a locked gate, which has fallen into disarray. The garden has been shut for 10 years because it belonged to her uncle's deceased and very beloved wife, a wife for whom he still mourns. With the help of a local boy and some furry friends, Mary secretively visits the garden every day and begins to put it right. Here the garden becomes a metaphor for Mary's transformative effect upon her cousin and uncle.

The Secret Garden was one of the most enchanting books that I read as a child. I recently purchased and read this book again. I was pleased to note that for an adult, The Secret Garden was just as enchanting.

Even though I ordered this by mistake (I meant to send them a Tasha Tudor book), they really liked it, especially the five year old. She reads dozens of books a week and her favorite store is Barns and Noble.