Return to the Secret Garden

from roses7184

Since I've yet to finish a book yet this year, I thought it was a good time to go ahead and work on the reviews that I never had a chance to post last year. Which, especially in the case of Return to the Secret Garden, is a shame. This book was absolutely adorable, and I wish I'd been on top of m...

from HeatherLINC

Holly Webb has written a sweet sequel to "The Secret Garden". I liked how she wove her novel around Frances Hodgson Burnett's original story and brought in the well-loved characters of Mary, Colin, Martha and Dickon. It made the book feel familiar and new at the same time. A nice read.

from foggidawn

Thirty years after Mary Lennox discovers the locked door to a walled garden, Emmie Hatton and the rest of the children at a London orphanage are evacuated to Misselthwaite Manor because of the war. Emmie is thin and sullen, much like Mary herself once was. She misses her cat, and dislikes Jack, t...

from Carlathelibrarian

It has been a long time since I read "The Secret Garden" but as I read this, a lot of it came back to me. This is a sequel but it is written in a different style and much more child friendly. Holly Webb has this story take place in 1939 when a group of orphans have been evacuated from London and ...