The Secret Garden (Walker Illustrated Classics)

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett

Classics

When orphan Mary Lennox arrives from India to live with her uncle, everyone at Misselthwaite Manor thinks her a most disagreeable child. Then one day she discovers a secret garden, locked and hidden for ten years. With the help of Dickon and her spoilt, invalid cousin, Colin, Mary brings the garden back to life; and as she does, the mystery behind it is revealed.


An instant classic, The Secret Garden has been cherished by generations of readers since its publication in 1911. This Walker Illustrated Classics edition is beautifully illustrated by Inga Moore.

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"* "A stunning achievement... Moore's illustrations are just so perfect for the book that you can almost feel Kenneth Grahame smiling down upon it." The Sunday Telegraph on The Wind in the Willows"

Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote over forty books in her lifetime, including many for adults, but she is most famous for her children's books Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, most of which was written in a walled rose garden during a stay at an English country house. Inga Moore has illustrated numerous classics including Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and E. Nesbit's The Reluctant Dragon, as well as writing and illustrating Six Dinner Sid, which won a Smarties Book Prize (0-5 Category). She lives in Gloucestershire.

General Fields

  • : 9781406318036
  • : Walker Books Ltd
  • : Walker Books Ltd
  • : 28 February 2009
  • : 210mm X 180mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 09 October 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • : Paperback
  • : 409
  • : Inga Moore
  • : 813.4
  • : 320
  • : illustrations