The Secret Garden (A Young Reader's Edition) - Hardcover

Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Resnick, Jane Parker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0894718606 ISBN 13: 9780894718601

Publisher: Courage Books, 1990

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and finds an invalid cousin and a mysterious locked garden

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-4-- Although this abridged version of Burnett's classic novel retains the order of narrative events found in her work, the bare-bones style has little of the flavor of the original. The condensation all but eliminates descriptive passages and fails to develop characters such as Ben Weatherstaff, Susan Sowerby, and Archibald Craven. The time from Colin's entry into the garden through his recovery is severely compressed. Nor can the illustrations earn a purchase recommendation on their own merits. Figures are stiff and lifeless, and the colors are unappealing. In the final painting, for example, the complexions of all the characters are a sickly green. Adults who want to share their own remembered enjoyment of Burnett's work with their children would be well advised to read the original aloud to young listeners or wait until they are old enough to read the complete novel themselves. --Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Courage Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0894718606
• ISBN 13: 9780894718601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 55
• Illustrator: Crawford Dale