The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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1. Kim Brown SeelyInterview

   So many books! I was a night-owl flashlight reader, as well as an introvert who loved the adventure of disappearing into a new book. I read my books over and over: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett, the entire Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene, Green Mansions by William Henry…

2. Nicola CornickInterview

   I don’t remember the very first piece of writing I did but I do remember an early one. It was for a school essay and it was inspired by The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I remember it particularly because I used the word “paradisiacal” to describe the garden and my English teacher asked me if I had…

3. Ashley StorrieInterview
4. Helen StewardInterview

   Lots of things. My mum read to my sister and I all the time when we were young –usually when we were in the bath! Amongst many favourites were The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; and a collection of stories by Hans Christian Anderson that I treasured, but always…

5. Darren ShanInterview

   The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett was my favourite childhood book. I became a big fan of the TV series that was made back in the 1970s, and I read the book on the back of that, and then read it again and again. I was a big Enid Blyton fan too – The Famous Five and The Secret Seven in particular – but The…

6. Angie HobbsInterview

   So many. Some of the most important are The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne; Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; No More School by William Mayne. They all have vivid, nuanced characters, and they do not patronise children. They are also all infused with a deep love…

7. Robert CravenInterview

   When I think about my childhood, the books that come to mine are Famous Five by Enid Blyton, Billy Bunter by Frank Richards, Biggles by W.E. Johns, Neville Shute via The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

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