![]() ![]() However and to be honest, while my reading expectations for The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel and both Mariah Marsden's adapted text as well as Hanna Luechtefeld's accompanying artwork were naturally pretty low anyway, I also did not really think I would so massively and utterly despise The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel either. Sorry, but since Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1910 The Secret Garden is one of my ALL TIME favourite novels (both as a child and as an adult, in fact, and also with equal reading pleasure and joy), I most definitely was approaching Mariah Marsden’s brand new 2021 graphic novel adaptation with major misgivings and serious doubts (and in particular because a few of my Goodreads friends had read The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel prior to its publication and had not been all that impressed). I would hope this good book would be enough incentive for the child to then go on to the Classic. I feel this would appeal as a read-along to the younger children or older children that avoid novels. In the end there is some really interesting background on the book and author as well as a glossary. I would rate the illustrations an excellent four stars. The illustrations were lovely and varied and I can see it appealing to young children. The adaptation was sweetly done but a bit lacking and I would rate it three stars. This graphic novel/picture book is an adaptation by Mariah Marsden and illustrated by Hanna Luechtefeld. It quickly became one my very favorites and it was both magical and comforting to me. At five I may have had it read to me once or twice but I started reading very young. So I opened up my favorite Portuguese Rose and was perusing Netgalley when lo and behold.Īs a young boy from the ages of five to eight I read at least three times a year. Aside from my meditation and walking I needed a little more. I had a variety of minor stressors today (that added up) and I was feeling tense and mildly anxious. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and illustrator and Andrews McCeel publishing for an e-copy. 3.5 "nostalgic, stress easing, hope instilling" stars !!!
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