This book is one of the best books I have read in years! I don’t read often, but this blew my expectations.

I loved reading it as a young girl and I’m just as enchanted by rereading it now.

I was pleasantly surprised how much I loved this children’s book. It really does show that it’s mind over matter, being out in the sun, good work in the garden makes you happy.

When cholera takes Mary’s family in India, she is sent to live with her only remaining relative in England. Archibald Craven doesn’t know anything about caring for a bereaved young girl. Even his servants aren’t sure what to do with the sour creature. Soon the secrets of her new home intrigue her. And the wind coming off the moors begins to work a magic that just might change her and all others who find their way to the secret garden… I first read this book back when I was a tweenager (11, 12, or 13) and vaguely remembered it being both sad and sweet. This might be why I never watched the movie. Sometimes they leave out characters that are essential (like Tom Bombadil) or change details that really annoy me (still mad about “Where the Red Fern Grows” decades later—spoilers beg me to elaborate but I hate spoilers). Not sure how one could ruin the ending of this particular book, but I still don’t think I should risk it.