El jardín secreto / The Secret Garden - Softcover

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6070118774 ISBN 13: 9786070118777

Publisher: Alfaguara, 2014

Synopsis

After the death of her parents, the neglected and spoiled Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's large and lonely house on the Yorkshire Moors. There she discovers a secret garden and with the help of her strange animal-charming friend Dickon, not only restores the garden but in the process transforms herself to an unselfish and happy child, and helps cure her sick cousin, and to rehabilitate his gloomy, grief-stricken father. This timeless classic is included in the ELA Common Core Text Exemplar list.

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hodgson Burnett is the award-winning author of such children s classics as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess. Born in Manchester, England in 1849, Burnett immigrated with her family to Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of sixteen, and there began her career writing stories for magazines, eventually publishing her first novel, That Lass o Lowries, in 1877. The publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 cemented her popularity as a children s author, although she continued to write adult fiction as well. Frances Burnett Hodgson died in Long Island in 1924.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 6070118774
• ISBN 13: 9786070118777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Illustrator: Lee Hye Ran