The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I’m here writing this book review while also majorly multi-tasking. I never knew that I could eat Mr. Noodles, write a 5 paragraph essay and also help my sister draw a flower which is starting to look like a mutated animal. I’m doing great. I like how every minute I’m supposed to be doing something… I always have something to do. I missed school so much, even if it means less reading.. it means more things to fill up my time.

After living all her life in India, the spoiled child Mary moves to England to stay with her Uncle. Left by herself to explore the moor, and the huge property that he owns – Mary finds and learns things she could never have dreamed of when she was in India. She takes a turn for the better, and blooms like a beautiful flower in the secret garden that she adores so very much. What more does a child need than to be loved, have freedom, and most of all… get full breaths of fresh air straight out of the moor wind.                                                                                  

As you should know by now, I’ll read almost anything… so when I saw this children’s book on my friends bookshelf, I borrowed it right away. There’s nothing better than a nice classical read… especially (as I’ve said many times before) when the setting is in old England. And this book had such a great plot line… I kept on thinking that the garden would be discovered by the Uncle and that they would all be yelled at and banned and never aloud to go in there again. But no, it never happened. :]

One of the really big things that made this book likable for me, was the Yorkshire dialogue that was said. By the end of the novel, I was very confident that if a person came up to me and started to speak English in a very heavy Yorkshire accent, I would be able to understand it pretty darn well. A great read, whether you’re a kid or a teen.

I give The Secret Garden a 3.5 out of 5. I don’t know much about this author, but we can always learn! he doesn’t have his own website because he’s too ancient, but you know the deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett

Later Cheese Graters!

MRR