A memoir that guides us through the New York of the 1960s. Caught between his uncle Fred, a man-about-town, & his aunt Linda, a secretary at Paramount Pictures, 16-year-old John Skoyles finds himself exploring everything from the bars & swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the flophouses & haunts of Forty-second Street. ...

Visual audiobook. Young Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire England after her parents die of cholera. When she arrives, she meets her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as petulant as she once was. Mary & Colin are closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, until a secret garden captures their imaginations. As spring brings new life, Mary & Colin's sour natures begin to change. Playing & working every day in the secret garden improves their nature & health, as the 'magic' of the garden transforms them into normal, healthy children. This programme allows the viewer to read along with the narrator as the text appears on the screen accompanied by illustrations. ...

A BBC dramatisation of Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about an orphaned little girl who goes to live with her gloomy & secretive old uncle. The girl soon makes friends with a young boy & together they play behind the locked gates of the secret walled garden, with unexpected consequences
- but never-the-less a happy outcome. Set in Victorian Yorkshire.
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Bringing the Francis Hodgson Burnett classic to the big screen; Mary Lennox is the young orphan sent to stay with her uncle in a forbidding mansion. She not only discovers an invalid cousin she never knew she had but also a secret garden in need of repair. ...

Whether you long to be surrounded by roses or something on a grander scale, this beautifully illustrated book written by nursery woman & garden expert Annie Bullen is full of ideas for creating a green & secret place where the pressures of the world can be forgotten. ...