The Secret Garden

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  A beautiful and moving story. Not only the story is nice, but the description of children and animal thoughts and behaviors is so lively and cute. It is very touching to see that the main charactors came alive with the secret garden. I feel that some dead part inside me came alive too. This is an ex ... (continue)

  A beautiful and moving story. Not only the story is nice, but the description of children and animal thoughts and behaviors is so lively and cute. It is very touching to see that the main charactors came alive with the secret garden. I feel that some dead part inside me came alive too. This is an excellent book for both children and adult.

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  material girl said on Jan 8, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  That's a lovely novel, yet I appreciated the first part much more than the second one, in particular thanks to the passages dedicated to Mary's early childhood in India and the discovery of the garden. I particularly agree with the general message of this book, according to which children can grow h ... (continue)

  That's a lovely novel, yet I appreciated the first part much more than the second one, in particular thanks to the passages dedicated to Mary's early childhood in India and the discovery of the garden. I particularly agree with the general message of this book, according to which children can grow happy and healthy thanks to the physical proximity of animals, the contact with nature in the open air, and, above all, love and... a bit of Magic!
  It was interesting and not so difficult to deal with Yorkshire language.

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  Lilacwhisper said on Jul 26, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  It is supposed to be a children book (and it is, with the spoiled orphan, the eerie mansion full of mistery, the enchanted garden to be discovered, the boy who charms animals, the beginning of a friendship, a father too far away to take care of his son), but I prefer to label it as an evergreen.
  Th ... (continue)

  It is supposed to be a children book (and it is, with the spoiled orphan, the eerie mansion full of mistery, the enchanted garden to be discovered, the boy who charms animals, the beginning of a friendship, a father too far away to take care of his son), but I prefer to label it as an evergreen.
  The allegory of the nature waking together with the hearts of the two kids can be appreciated by the grown-ups, while younger readres may be charmed by the beauty of nature looking so similar to a world of fairies.
  To be remembered the beginning of chapter 27:
  "In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In tha last century more amazing things were found out than in the centuries before (...)At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done and when it is done all the world wonders why it was not done in centuries ago".

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  Ciski72 said on Sep 30, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Letto al liceo: thanks a lot, teacher! :)

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  7shapes said on Mar 6, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  This book is filled with a lot of positive energy and, of course, Magic
  I found it very cute

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  Noami said on Mar 22, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  The Secret Garden

  Mary was a very egoist and vitiated african girl. One day her parents died and she went to live with her uncle, Mr. Craven. Mr. Craven was a little like her and he did not want to see his son because he reminds him his wife.
  Colin, Mr.Craven's son, was an egoist and vitiated boy that did not walk, ... (continue)

  Mary was a very egoist and vitiated african girl. One day her parents died and she went to live with her uncle, Mr. Craven. Mr. Craven was a little like her and he did not want to see his son because he reminds him his wife.
  Colin, Mr.Craven's son, was an egoist and vitiated boy that did not walk, but after some time he became Mary's friend and they both changed: they were not egoist and vitiated now but friendly and altruist. He started to walk in a secret garden that Mary founded out. That garden was secret because Mr. Craven had closed its door and thrown away the key because if he went in that garden he would remember his wife and so he would became sad.
  Time after Mr. Craven has understood that it is not right to ignore his son only because he reminds his wife and so Mr. Craven became a good father.

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  Ely said on Apr 17, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 48 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0140816259
• ISBN-13: 9780140816259
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Pub date: Mar 01, 1997
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Libri Italiani

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