Secret Garden, The-Story Time Classic
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Viking Children's Books, $15.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-670-89911-1
A new series, ""Storytime Classics,"" introduces four timeless stories retold by Janet Allison Brown to the picture-book crowd. Full-bleed and spot illustrations carry the stories, with text in large type In The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, both by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illus. by Graham Rust, the heroines' kind-heartedness and perserverence shines through. Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger embark on their adventures in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illus. by Joanne Moss, and in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, illus. by Dinah Dryhurst, readers meet the four March sisters. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/01/2001
Genre: Children's