The Secret Garden: Illustrated Gift Edition (Nosy Crow Classics) Hardcover – Picture Book, 2 Sept. 2021

Beautiful illustrations through out, a joy for any child to see and read. The hardback cover is also exceptional, beautiful in design and creativity.

Bought for a birthday present for a 6 year old, very suitable.However, not happy with amazon packaging, the book had been put into a standard cardboard amazon sleeve with no protection resulting in scuffed and damaged corners - very dissappointed.

I bought this to add to my niece and nephews book collection as they are three and six I thought it best to get this with picture and I wasn't disappointed the six year old reads it to the three year old and they both enjoy the pictures.. I'd definitely recommend adding this to any child's collection

Beautiful story beautiful pictures, loved by the family I’m reading it to.

Secret Garden is my wife’s favourite story, So we bought it for our eldest Granddaughter for Christmas as she loves reading now (nearly 7). Wonderful story.

This is a retelling of The Secret Garden, for children. Very well done and beautifully illustrated.

A wonderful variant on the original Secret Garden, abridged and smoothed out for young readers by an expert at knowing what young readers should be consuming. I won't go into the whole redemptive powers of the garden and how it brings light into the life of a whole disparate family of people on the Yorkshire Moors, but I will say this was a very good way of presenting it all. The artwork is wonderful – OK, it showed none of the change in the heroine the text mentions as she switches from a stick-thin bit of anger to a "wick" young woman over the course of the seasons the story plays out in, but it really was lovely to see.One thing to point out as regards the text was how stupid my prior retelling of this had been to dump the whole India-set start, for that is certainly needed. That version seemed to nail more of the complexity of the characters, for here there was not quite the room to debate whether what made them dislikeable was acceptable before showing their arc to happiness. So again, some purists may dislike how a little of the light and shade has been removed from their beloved original. But without expert knowledge of that, I still feel happy to state this is a welcome edition, and I really liked it. Four and a half stars.

My 7yr old daughter cannot get enough of this gorgeous book. It is beautifully written and so exquisitely illustrated. I would highly recommend this.