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Summary: A wonderful book that gains meaning as you grow older
Review: The Secret Garden is one of those rare books that actually gains meaning the more times you read it. Like C.S.Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series it is a story that calls to be read again at different times in your life. At age 30 I myself try to read it every year or so and find that when I put it down I am filled with a new openness to the wonders around me, a sort of spiritual rebirth.The novel itself is wonderfully written coming from a time when children's authors did not necessarily "dumb down" their works but instead the children rose to the occassion of reading them. Even so, the book is not overly difficult even for younger readers and should help them learn to gain vocabularly through seeing words used in context. I really can't say enough good things about this book, it's uplifting message and the beautiful language in which it is told. I don't usually recommend movies based on books because I think they take away from the source material, but the most recent British version (starring Maggie Smith, and Kate Maberly among others)is excellent as well and really enhances the enjoyment of the book.
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Summary: The Secret Garden
Review: I did't really like this book because it was boring and it wasn't that interesting at all. This book was also boring because it was from the older times and iin those types of books you don't really learn anything from them because you already might know them. You may or may not want to read this book but, thats your decsion to decide. I would recommend this book to girls in the range of third grade to fifth grade. I didn't like this book much at all.
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Summary: A Secretly Stupid Garden
Review: This is the worst book I have ever read, and I have read a lot of books. The characters have the intelligence of worms and are about as interesting as one to. The story, unfortunatly, starts, at this huge old house. This bratty and selfish girl goes to life, after her parents died (probably couldn't stand her,...). There she meets this other annoying and bratty kid, who, if possible, may be more selfish than her. They eventually become friends, and discover this garden, that would have been better off stayed hidden, for the sake of the readers. And thats basically it. Beginning. Middle. End. Not even an interesting end. I could barely tell the difference between the beginning and the end. That may be a good thing.
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Summary: The Secret Garden
Review: The secret garden is very good and interesting book.
Mary was a main character in the story. She was ten years old and she always looks cross sad and unhappy. She grew up without love because when she was ten years old, her parents died, also her parents did not love her very much. Then she moved to England to live with her uncle. She met Colin in England, He is Mr. Craven's son . He was also lonely chilled. His father was afraid of Colin because he is very similar to his wife. His wife died by an accident in the secret garden .So he still love his wife. So nobody did not go to the secret garden for ten years, but Mary found door and key to go to secret garden...
At first , almost character's personalities were awful, they had problem in their
minds. The beginning of story is very sad. Story starts to change when Mary went to
England and found the secret garden . Although Colin was really unhealthy boy, while
Mary was changing , people were changing around her . At last , Colin meets a person in
the secret garden ...
The book teaches us what is important. People need people , also people need to
help friends love. And nature heals people's mind, while we do not notice.
People should read this book who are tired in this world.
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Summary: A Great All Time Classic
Review: My favorite book, I would have to say, is The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett. I like this book because you really never know what is going to happen next. There is a girl, Mary Lennox, who is an orphan because her parents died of the cholera disease. Since she has no other close family that she knows, she has to go live with her uncle. His very big house is called the Misselthwaite Manor. Mary finds this place to be kind of mysterious. Some nights she hears the sound of crying down the long, dark corridors. She gets out of bed, and she tries to find the room that it is coming from. Mary has no luck doing that, and she decides to go back to bed. She hears it again the next night, and she finds the room. In the room there is a young boy named Colin. He is always sick because he has a back problem. The reason he was crying is because his back hurts so bad that he can't go to sleep. Another reason why I like this book is because it has a great setting. They are out in the middle of nowhere. There are few trees and flowers. Best of all, there is the secret garden. She has no clue what is in it until one day when a little robin leads her to the key. Mary develops a good friendship with Colin, and she shows him the key. Then she decided to go in it. The secret garden has not been opened in a long time so it is kind of dead. I really like the ending of this book because everything turns out great. Colin gets a lot better, and he can finally walk out to the garden with Mary. They plow and plant flowers to make the garden beautiful. In the end Mary actually liked living in the Misselthwaite Manor. As you can tell, I really like this book, and these are just a few reasons why it ia my favorite.
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Summary: The Secret Garden-A Treasure to Cherish
Review: The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett is about a girl, Mary Lennox, who has spent her entire life in India. When her parents encounter a strange and mysterious illness that leads to death, Mary must move to England and stay there with her uncle, whom she's never seen or met before. Strange things are going on at Misselthwait Manor, like a garden that's locked up for an unknown reason, and a strange crying sound in the middle of the night. I enjoyed this book a lot because Ms. Burnett made the characters seem real, the plot exciting, and the ordinary seem unordinary.
Francis Hodgson Burnett made the characters in The Secret Garden seem real to me because of the description. For example, this is what she has to say about Mary, first thing on the first page, right after you open the book. "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwait Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another." Can't you just picture Mary in your head? Ms. Burnett describes all her characters so well you can see them, and are positive that you have met that person before, no matter if they are mentioned just once, or on every page.
The plot of The Secret Garden is exciting because there are lots of different things going on at once. To illustrate, Mary is trying to get into the locked garden. She's also trying to make friends with Colin, her disabled cousin, and to adjust to life in England with her uncle and no parents. If I had that many things going on in my life, it certainly wouldn't be boring!
In The Secret Garden, Ms. Burnett makes the ordinary seem unordinary in many ways. One way is that everything is seen through the eyes of a disagreeable, spoiled, ten-year-old girl. I'm not very much older than ten myself, but I don't think that wandering around in a huge old house on a rainy day is exciting, but through Mary's eyes it is. In addition to that, Ms. Burnett makes the ordinary seem unordinary by combining unusual character traits. Take Mary's uncle for example. He's a mean old man with a crooked back, and he's married. Alone, those two things are perfectly normal seen every day, but you don't expect to see those two things together when someone's being described.
An exciting plot, the unordinary turned ordinary, and very realistic characters are my favorite things about The Secret Garden. In reality, the whole book is a treasure to cherish. If you've never read this book, you really should. If you've only read it once, read The Secret Garden again and again. I know I will.
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Summary: Watch the Garden and Mary come Alive! A Wonderful tale..
Review: I loved this book as a girl, and still have my mother's copy. I've just introduced my nieces to the story, and they love it too.
This story has everything that's essential in a great children's book. The heroine isn't too sweet, in fact she can throw tantrums if she doesn't get her way. There are mysteries to be solved, the voice crying at night, the locked garden with no key.
The story of how Mary comes to be happy, along with the blooming of the neglected garden, and the saving of a father and son relationship, is wonderfully told. The characters are delightfully described, from Martha, Mary's "maid", to the mysterious Colin, imperial as a rajah, when he needs to be.
This is one of the few books that will help ease the "dry" spells between the releases of the Harry Potter books.
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Summary: the secret garden
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN
Is a history about children, is a history, magic when they are learned about friendships and perseverance.
All begin when Mary lived in the Indian whit your parents. Your father was worked to British Army, they are more social activities, and they're don't have time to share with your daughter Mary, very many British people lived in Indian, they are worked in the government, in the army, she though only about herself, no one love, Mary and Mary loved no one, she learnt that her father and mother were dead.
Mary had no family in Indian, so he went home to England to live with her uncle she is very unhappy and angry. Mary knew Mrs. Medlock , she had never see a child who sat so still and did nothing.
Mr. Craven uncle of Mary he never takes any notice of anyone, he's a strange man and he's (hunchback), his wife was a sweet pretty woman.
Mary had your servant; this servant whose name was Martha; Mary was not like the servant in Indian. Martha was very fanny, but Mary is very angry Martha had one young brother him name is Dickon, he was like the flowers, he was very pleasant as your sister, he went in to the garden too, she know Bean Weatherstaff and robin, he was gardener, he told her about the plants and flowers that she had found in the secret garden.
Robin is the friend of Ben; it is one bird very nice. Mary Knew your cousin Colin, he was unhappy because doesn't near father and him mother was dead, she was help her cousin Colin be happy.
I like these book, because is really good its was totally different, I can easy understand, is beautiful, the character is interesting, is one history very nice for my, I also recommend. READING IS NICE...
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Summary: Childhood favorite
Review: I read Secret Garden, the unabridged version when I was a girl, and have never forgot the book. Little Mary, the ugly duckling became a dream figure, a little princess, with her own, very romantic garden.
Have read the book several times since then, and also seen the movie, and it is with great pleasure I read the book for my own girls. This short version, with illustrations by Tasha Tudor is a golden treasure. Not like the "real" story, the unabridged version, but a perfect start for a little girl to meet the story the first time. Thanks to Frances Hodgson Burnett for the storyline and to Tasha Tudor for her art. Britt Arnhild Lindland
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Summary: A interesting read
Review: The history starts in the India. There was born a girl with the name Mary Lennox. Her parents died when she was a child and she went to live in England with her uncle, Mr. Archibald Craven and his son Colin.
I recomend this book,it's fun and you are going to have a good time.
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