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Secret Garden

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I've loved The Secret Garden since I was a young girl, and purchased this to share the classic story of friendship, mystery, and happiness with my 5-year-old daughter. The product description wrongly states that the illustrations are by Inga Moore. They are in fact by Charles Robinson (1870-1937), the original illustrator of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden.

I liked that the book has large type which makes reading aloud to my daughter (who is a beginning reader) convenient (we prop it up whilst in bed/armchair and it's not too heavy to make it cumbersome to hold). The paper quality is of good stock. My main complaint here is that the gorgeous illustrations by Robinson have suffered from poor transfer, resulting in images that appear very dark (even though each illustration is given a full page). Details in the illustrations are less easy to appreciate as a result, something I look forward to especially with children's books. For the price though, this is a nice enough edition.