The Secret Garden

by Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Konigsburg, E.L.

• ISBN13: 9780689831416
• ISBN10: 0689831412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Aladdin

Summary

One of the most beloved children's books of all time and the inspiration for a feature film, a television miniseries, and a Broadway musical,The Secret Gardenis the best-known work of Frances Hodgson Burnett. In this unforgettable story, three children find healing and friendship in a magical forgotten garden on the haunting Yorkshire moors.

Author Biography

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and was dramatized during Burnett's lifetime. The story lives on today in videos and movies. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
There is No One Left	1	(9)
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary	10	(13)
Across the Moor	23	(7)
Martha	30	(25)
The Cry in the Corridor	55	(10)
``There was someone crying---there was!''	65	(11)
The Key of the Garden	76	(10)
The Robin Who Showed the Way	86	(12)
The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In	98	(15)
Dickon	113	(18)
The Nest of the Missel Thrush	131	(13)
``Might I have a bit of earth?''	144	(13)
``I am Colin''	157	(20)
A Young Rajah	177	(18)
Nest Building	195	(18)
``I won't!'' said Mary	213	(11)
A Tantrum	224	(11)
``Tha' munnot waste no time''	235	(11)
``It has come!''	246	(17)
``I shall live for ever---and ever---and ever!''	263	(13)
Ben Weatherstaff	276	(16)
When the Sun Went Down	292	(8)
Magic	300	(19)
``Let them laugh''	319	(18)
The Curtain	337	(11)
``It's Mother!''	348	(15)
In the Garden	363