Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics & Where you tend a rose my lad A thistle cannot grow& Orphaned & sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors Mary Lennox is a lonely & unhappy child A meeting with Dickon her servant&s brother begins her adventure & it is through their friendship & her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden ...

When Mary Lennox is orphaned she is sent from her home in India to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors She arrives as a sour-faced sickly & ill-tempered little girl bewildered by her surroundings & desperately lonely One day she discovers a way in to a secret abandoned garden & with the help of local lad Dickon & her poorly cousin Colin they set about restoring the garden The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical tale of transformation that has enchanted both children & adults since its publication in 1911 This beautiful Macmillan Collector&s Library edition of The Secret Garden features an afterword by publisher Anna South Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

When a cholera epidemic kills Mary Lennox&s family in India she is taken to her Uncle Craven&s house in the sprawling Yorkshire moors Misselthwaite Manor Previously angry & lonely Mary grows calmer & gradually makes friends with her maidservant Martha Sowerby who tells her that the late Mrs Craven used to love tending to a private garden in the grounds but following her death her Uncle Craven had locked the garden & buried the key Mary becomes fascinated by this secret garden & one day miraculously discovers the key down a badger&s hole As she becomes accustomed to life in Yorkshire & tending to the secret garden Mary becomes convinced that she can hear a mysterious crying sound from within the house With the help of Martha&s younger brother Dickon Mary discovers that she has a secret young cousin Colin who has been locked away in the house for years & it is he who has been crying Mary & Dickon take it upon themselves to nurture Colin back to health exploring the secret garden as they do Eventually there is a happy ending for all the children thanks to the Secret Garden ...

& She put her hand in her pocket drew out the key & found it fitted the keyhole she held back the swinging curtain of ivy & pushed back the door which opened slowly Then she slipped through it looking about her & breathing quite fast with excitement & wonder & delight She was standing inside the secret garden& Everybody at Misselthwaite Manor agrees that Mary Lennox is the most disagreeable child they have ever met Pale selfish & spoilt the ten-year-old orphan has been sent from India to her uncle&s estate & she is determined to hate everything about it But the isolated house on the Yorkshire moors holds secrets that Mary cannot resist exploring pitiful crying that echoes down the corridors at night & a hidden walled garden When a robin leads Mary to the buried key not only is the garden unlocked but also her heart & as the garden blooms for the first time in her life Mary discovers friendship This is where the magic begins & The mystery element kept me turning the pages but it was the superb characterisation that made the story stay with me It taught me that it&s never too late to remake yourself into someone better& Malorie Blackman& There is an old-fashioned tenderness & joy to it; the sense that magic happens if you are observant & quiet & know it will& Sophie Dahl A collection that will be coveted by children & adults alike this list is the best in children&s literature curated by Virago These are timeless tales with beautiful covers that will be treasured & shared across the generations Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you but there are stories for everyone to love whatever your age Our list

Includes:: Nina Bawden (Carrie&s War The Peppermint Pig) Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse An Episode of Sparrows) Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden The Gift Giving) E Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy The Bastable Trilogy The Railway Children) L M Montgomery (The Anne of Green Gables series) & Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy) Discover Virago Children&s Classics

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Frances Burnett Hodgson’s novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing & uplifting It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century Mary Lennox a sickly ten year old girl adrift in the world after both her mother & father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met at his isolated house Misselthwaite Manor Initially Mary is seen as a rude aggressive & selfish child She dislikes her new home & the people living in it But now the scene is set for her transformation & the introduction of the author’s engaging theme of rejuvenation & renewal In exploring the grounds Mary finds the key to the locked garden which is neglected & overrun with weeds She sets her mind to bringing it back to life In doing so Mary finds a purpose & an excitement in her lonely existence However apart from the garden there are other secrets to be revealed at Misselthwaite Manor such as the strange cries in the night & the identity of Colin a disabled boy whom she discovers in the hidden bedroom The popularity of this novel bears witness to its universal appeal & its timeless hold on the imagination ...

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Harriet Walter & Beryl Reid star in this full-cast adaptation of the much-loved children&s classic When spoilt young orphan Mary Lennox is brought back from India to live in her uncle&s house on the Yorkshire Moors she finds the blunt ways of the staff at Misselthwaite Manor an unpleasant shock Bored & miserable it seems as though life in England will be awful But Misselthwaite has hidden delights & when Mary begins to discover them nothing is the same again First there is the secret garden
- & with it comes a boy who knows all the wonders of the country He can even talk to the birds! Then as the old house gives up its biggest secret Mary forms a magical friendship Frances Hodgson Burnett&s charming story is played out with all the freshness & warmth of the original novel in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization
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Mary Lennox was horrid Selfish & spoilt she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire She hated it But when she finds the way into a secret garden & begins to tend it a change comes over her & her life She meets & befriends a local boy the talented Dickon & comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her Between them the three children work astonishing magic in themselves & those around them The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time ...

After losing her parents young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle&s gloomy mansion on the wild English moors She is lonely & has no one to play with but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed
- & a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door Slowly she turns the key & enters a world she could never have imagined With a heartwarming introduction by Sophie Dahl The Secret Garden is one of the twenty best-loved classic stories being launched in the Puffin Classics series in March 2015
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" People never like me & I never like people" Mary thought& When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody says she is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen It is true too Mary is pale spoilt & quite contrary But she is also horribly lonely Then one day she hears about a garden in the grounds of the Manor that has been kept locked & hidden for years & when a friendly robin helps Mary find the key she discovers the most magical place anyone could imagine BACKSTORY Take our quiz learn about the plucky author & find out about the real secret garden ...