THE secret GARDEN FRANCES HoDGSON BURNETT RETOLD BY ELIZABETH GOODNIGHT ILLUSTRATED BY Toro hosoya
Mistress Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow With silver bells and cockle shells And marigolds all in a row When Mary Lennox was sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor everyone said she was the most disagreeable looking child they had ever seen It was true too She had a thin little face and a sour expression And her insides were sour too She was as spoiled as spoiled could be and she had seldom if ever been happy But as with many things in life the beauty in the story of Mary Lennox is not in how things began it is in how they came to be
