The Secret Garden

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• cocacola1 · Dec 12, 2018 · Recommends

  …and I enjoyed this book. Don't know if it's just me, but Weatherford does seem to handwave Mongol atrocities. 4/5 Genghis Khan and the Quest for God by Jack Weatherford - Again, enjoyable. 3.5/5 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Charming and enjoyable story. 4/5 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Pretty sure this is the first book I ever read that's written from an animal's POV. I liked it. 4/5 The Prose…

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• deckiedan · Apr 19, 2018 · Recommends

  …Dick King Smith, Alexander McCall-Smith has a few great calm fun fiction for kids (The Perfect Hamburger, for instance), Treasures of the Snow, Paddington, E.Nesbit, the Princess and Curdie et al, The Secret Garden, Dogger, the Story of Ping (AFTER you read it, check the amazon reviews), Politically Correct BedTime Stories ... My wife and I are now reading (for the second time) through David Eddings' 'The Belgariad'…

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• paulmd · May 5, 2022 · Recommends

  …Underpants Roald Dahl books: The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/The Great Glass Elevator (not as good) My Side of the Mountain No More Dead Dogs The Secret Garden Bridge to Terabithia (Deals with death, a little older) The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe Across five Aprils (civil war historical fiction, older) The Broken Blade (Voyageur) & Sequel Island…

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• nickd2001 · May 7, 2024 · Recommends

  I'd think Tolkein's "The Hobbit" would fit this description? Or CS Lewis Narnia series, one-offs like "The Secret Garden", Also Edith Nesbit, fantastic children's author, "The Railway children" probably her most famous. century old at least.

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• rnoorda · Sep 14, 2021 · Mentions

  …school, but it's been a long time. In my mind, the "canon" version is now Man of La Mancha which, as the article notes, "could not be more distant" from the original. I find the same has happened with The Secret Garden and The Scarlet Pimpernel. I'm not immediately convinced that Don Quixote is a more effective manual for living than other classic works of literature, but it's interesting enough to make me consider…

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• shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Mentions

  73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Illniyar · Dec 22, 2015 · Mentions

  …Vol. 1: The Ancient World (314 pgs.). UPDATE 3 (Dec. 16, 2012): at six, my son switches between “serious” literature which he reads with a dictionary app, including Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, and The Secret Garden, and easier literature including Beverly Cleary books, the Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown. If his answers to regular comprehension questions are any indication, he’s understanding what he reads pretty…

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• hakunin · Oct 7, 2024 · Mentions

  You vastly underestimate what a 6yo can do. Case in point, one can understand the entire content of a book like Little Prince or Secret Garden, an entire plot of Marvel or Harry Potter movie, build 18+ yo lego sets, and play Theme Hospital and actually win levels. Animal sounds? Don't put speed limits on kids' learning. Also, how would you…

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