The Secret Garden & Other Adventures for Children - 4 Books in One Edition


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The Secret Garden (1911) tells an inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment. Mary Lennox, a sickly and contrary little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor - her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach. A Little Princess (1905) Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). Cedric Errol is a poor American boy who finds out that he is the sole heir to a wealthy British earldom and thus becomes Lord Fauntleroy. The Making of a Marchioness (1901) It was originally published in two parts: the first tells the fairy tale-like story of how our heroine, Emily Fox-Seton, became the Marchioness of Walderhurst. The second, originally titled The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is a down-to-earth portrayal of the realities of Victorian marriage, with a bit of a Victorian sensation vibe to it. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy , A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.




The Story Girl & Its Sequel, The Golden Road (Children's Classics)


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"The Story Girl" is a 1911 novel by L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. The sequel to the book is "The Golden Road," written in 1913. When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily and Dan will publish a magazine. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.




Alice to the Lighthouse


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Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century.




The Secret Garden Lit Link Gr. 4-6


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The story tells of a young orphaned girl named Mary Lennox who lives at her uncle's estate. There are many mysteries at Misselthwaite Manor, not the least of which is a secret garden. Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key. 64 pages.




Best Books for Children


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An annually revised, annotated list of children's books selected from the titles listed in Children's books in print.




A Hundred Years of the Secret Garden


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Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). This volume is dedicated to The Secret Garden. The articles address a wide range of issues, including the representation of the garden in Burnett's novel in the context of cultural history; the relationship between the concept of nature and female identity; the idea of therapeutic places; the notion of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the concept of male identity; constructions of 'Otherness' and the redefinition of Englishness; film and anime versions of Burnett's classic; Noel Streatfeild's The Painted Garden as a rewriting of The Secret Garden; attitudes towards food in children's classics and Burnett's novel in the context of Edwardian girlhood fiction and the tradition of the female novel of development.




Children's Literature in Context


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Children's Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied texts including Lewis Carroll's Alice books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials trilogy highlight major themes and ways of reading children's literature. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores a range of wider cultural texts including the film adaptations of Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives on issues including innocence, gender, fantasy, psychoanalysis and ideology. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying children's literature.




Children's Literature


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The 1945 Sears Christmas Book


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This facsimile of the Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s 1945 Christmas catalog offers a nostalgic look back at consumer goods of the era, from dolls and toy trains to housewares, clothing, furniture, candy, and much more. Also reproduced here is an insightful poem, "Christmas Peace," included in the original mailing to commemorate the end of the war.




The Greatest Adventure Books for Children


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e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of "The Greatest Adventure Books for Children" with most-iconic and admired little-adventurers of all time:_x000D_ The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)_x000D_ Pinocchio's Adventure in Wonderland (Carlo Collodi)_x000D_ The Little Gingerbread Man (George Haven Putnam)_x000D_ John Dough and the Cherub (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) _x000D_ A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)_x000D_ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)_x000D_ Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)_x000D_ Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson)_x000D_ Heidi (Johanna Spyri)_x000D_ The King of Gee-Whiz (Emerson Hough)_x000D_ Anne of Green Gables Collection (Lucy Maud Montgomery)_x000D_ Anne of Green Gables_x000D_ Anne of Avonlea_x000D_ Anne of the Island_x000D_ Emily of New Moon_x000D_ Simple Susan (Maria Edgeworth)_x000D_ Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)_x000D_ Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Kate Douglas Wiggin)_x000D_ Understood Betsy (Dorothy Canfield)_x000D_ What Katy Did at School (Susan Coolidge)_x000D_ The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)_x000D_ The Box-Car Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner)_x000D_ The Railway Children (E. Nesbit)_x000D_ Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Moonfleet (John Meade Falkner)_x000D_ The Story of a Bad Boy (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)