The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel

I absolutely loved reading The Secret Garden when I was young and it was a delight to be able to share the story with my 9 year old. She loved the story and the illustrations and wants to read the full novel now. The quality of the graphic novel is incredible, the illustrations are breathtaking, the text is easy to read (from a font standpoint), and the story is timeless. If you’re on the fence about buying this for your young reader, I would encourage you to make the purchase. I bought all of the graphic novels in this collection.

I have never read a graphic novel. When I was a kid I read comic books. This is not my preferred way to read. But I was glad I tried it

I will preface this review by admitting I haven’t read The Secret Garden in years, so even though I love the story, I had forgotten quite a bit. As far as I can remember though, I believe this adaptation was true to the original and such a lovely way to remind me of a story I loved as a young girl. This graphic novel was magical. The illustrations were gorgeous, colorful, and captured the story brilliantly. There was so much hope and joy throughout the pages. I especially loved the sections at the end that detailed Frances Hodgson Burnett’s life and the places featured in the story, as well as a note about the author’s choice to leave out the parts of the story where Mary lived in India “because they don’t do justice to the history of British oppression in colonial India.” The author does not dismiss these injustices and does give a brief summary of the history of colonial India as it pertains to the story. Perhaps my favorite additional feature is the glossary included in the back that describes words younger readers might not know, as well as the many flowers and plants described and depicted in the graphic novel. If you love The Secret Garden, need a refresher like I did, or want an easily accessible way to introduce a classic to younger readers, I highly recommend reading this adaptation and being swept away in the beauty of the garden!!

I am only giving this low of a review because I believe that I was sent a misprint. Several of the pages were misprinted, and different layers of the ink do not align. This creates an almost 3D effect, but renders a few pages of text almost unreadable. If not for the misprint, my review would be 5 stars. The art is lovely, whimsical, and very fitting of the original story. The paper for the book is high-quality print paper, and the binding is well done.

It was a very nice grafic novel I love the details and designing.The orphen girl started out as depressed and at the end was very happy I think the garden idea was good.

Beautiful illustrations! My daughter loved the vibrant colors, and really enjoyed the story line to this as well. Such a great idea to turn a classic into a graphic novel!

I love this story when I was a child and it was nice to re-read it. I highly recommend it for those who want to just get lost on the moors.

This doesn't cover the whole story, but it's such a fun way to read the Secret Garden of you already have read the full classic, and know the story... The illustrations are wonderful, a lot of the pages made us laugh!!

A story of magic told in a magical way. The Secret Garden, one of the most beautiful stories told in modern times, in a beautifully illustrated version.

A fabulous quality grahic novel

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Bought as a birthday present for my daughter and she loved it. Good chapter book for kids.

Debo decir que cuando leí este libro me pareció malo. No sólo me desagrada su contexto, porque los valores que promueven no me parecen los mejores para los niños de la actualidad, sino que me pareció muy extraño que al final de libro se dejan sin cerrar los desarrollos de algunos personajes y que parece que la autora hubiera decidido terminarlo a la carrera, lo cual pienso que puede ser consecuencia de las circunstancias en que se publicó, ya que en esa época muchas novelas que conocemos ahora como libros, se vendía por entregas, como capítulos de una telenovela, y es posible que la respuesta del público afectara la escritura. Dicho todo esto, me parece que esta versión de novela gráfica está muy bien hecha, no deja hilos sueltos, tiene lindas ilustraciones y poco texto por lo que es apto para quienes están aprendiendo inglés y por eso lo recomiendo.