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Secret Garden Audio

Emma — Wed, 24 Sep 2098 00:00:00 +0000

After the death of her parents, Mary is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the Moors. Then one day she discovers the key to a secret garden and, like magic, her life begins to brighten in so many ways.

A Little Princess

Emma — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to settle in and make friends at boarding school. But when she learns that she’ll never see her beloved father gain, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and genorosity are all the riches she truly needs?

The Secret Garden

Emma — Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The perfect gift for a young reader.

Share your beloved childhood stories with the next generation!

This beautiful edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s cherished children’s story brings together the complete and unabridged text with over seventy evocative illustrations and botanical studies by the award-winning artist Robert Ingpen.

When spoiled rich girl, Mary Lennox, is orphaned, she is shipped from India to live in her uncle’s enormous manor in faraway England. Before long, Mary finds a key to a secret garden that has been left untouched for ten years, and a whole new world of enchantment opens up to her. For the first time she learns to make friends – with the talented animal-charmer, Dickon, and her sickly cousin, Colin, who has been hidden away behind closed doors – and together they reveal the garden’s haunting secrets.

A full-colour illustrated edition of one of the world’s best loved stories.

‘Ingpen’s drawings are utterly compelling’ – Michael Morpurgo

Secret Garden

Emma — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

When spoiled rich girl, Mary Lennox, is orphaned, she is shipped from India to live in her uncle’s enormous manor in faraway England. The lonely girl is forbidden to play in most of the imposing house – struggling to adjust to her new surroundings, she goes out into the grounds every day. Before long, Mary finds a key to a secret garden that has been left untouched for ten years, and a whole new world of enchantment opens up to her. For the first time she learns to make friends – with the talented animal-charmer, Dickon, and her sickly cousin, Colin, who has been hidden away behind closed doors – and between them, the three children truly flourish as the garden reveals its haunting secrets.

First published in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s story is one of the best-loved children’s books of the early twentieth century. This beautiful new edition brings together the complete and unabridged text with over seventy evocative illustrations and botanical studies by the award-winning artist Robert Ingpen.

Little Princess AUDIO x2

Emma — Thu, 26 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0000

When Sara returns from India she is taken to Miss Minchin's Seminary to continue her education. Sara's bearing and mind ensure that she is treated like a princess. The news of her adoring father's death and financial ruin soon reaches Miss Minchin and Sara soon goes from princess to pauper.

Secret Garden

Emma — Thu, 06 May 1993 00:00:00 +0000

This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all Mrs. Burnett’s books, but it did not acquire universal popularity until long after its first publication in 1911 Although set in Yorkshire, it was inspired by the rose garden at Great Maytham Hall in Kent (which still flourishes) where its much-travelled author lived from 1898 to 1907. The story has many illustrators, bur none has surpassed Charles Robinson who first created in his pictures the romantic and mysterious atmosphere of Misselthwaite Manor and the locked, forgotten garden.