“Beauties blossom aplenty in this welcome volume. The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett can’t fail to captivate the minds and hearts of young readers and even, perhaps, plant some seeds there.”—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
?Secret gardens, hidden gates, flowering passageways. A picture book biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett's winding and captivating life. ????
Frances could
not believe her ears.
How could Mamma
make them move to the city?
And how could Frances
leave her country garden?
Who would see
the magic when the sweetbriar bloomed?
Who would look
for tigers in the rose bushes?
Who would pick
the strawberries?
Frances Hodgson Burnett—best known for writing The
Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The Little Princess—had
a difficult childhood, losing her father when she was very young and moving with
her family from England to Tennessee in hopes of a better life.
She’d been making up stories her entire life but didn’t
try to write professionally until she was a teenager to help feed her family. Her
first submissions to a magazine were published and she eventually became well
known all over the world.
This is Hodgson Burnett’s life story, told in lyrical
prose evoking some of the same magic of her own stories.
