2007-03-13 23:16:19 · 9 answers · asked by littlemoon 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The Secret Garden is a great book but it's NOT about fairies in the garden. The orphan girl befriends a boy and tries to restore the garden whilst befriending her 'sick' cousin and helping him to overcome his problems. No fairies. There was a true story about a couple of sisters who claimed to play with fairies in the garden. They drew pictures of fairies, propped them in the garden and took photos and fooled a heck of a lot of people who really should have known better. It was England in the (fairly) early days of photography hence the photos weren't seen immediately as fakes. Enid Blyton wrote lots of stories of children playing with fairies, pixies etc such as The Wishing Chair where the children go on adventures to various fairy lands in a flying chair with their pixie or gnome friend Chinky. The Faraway Tree series sees the children going to the local wood where they play with a variety of odd characters including a fairy called Silky. I'm sure she wrote plenty more but she wasn't alive to be publishing in 1993. There have been some dodgy Blyton rip offs published though, unless the book mentioned was a re-issue.
2007-03-14 14:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by ammie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel)
It has to be "The Secret Garden" by Burnett, it was been the popular book and film since 1911.
The 1949 film, a black & white film, but colour when they enter the garden, was a classic, still shown on TV. The film is as powerful as it was then, it was the "Harry Potter" of the era.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0041855/
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that her Uncle does not wish to see her, which is fine with Mary as she herself is rude and spoiled. While walking the gardens the next day, Mary notices that there is a area in the garden surrounded with a high stone wall and no doorway. Dickon, brother of a house maid, tells her of the garden behind the wall. By the path, the raven unearths the hidden key so that Mary and Dickon are able to enter the walled garden to find it overgrown and neglected. Inside the house, she finds that Archibald has a son named Colin, who is crippled and as spoiled as she. Together these three work to make the secret garden their own world.
2007-03-14 08:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Made into film in 1993
2007-03-14 06:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by scareyd 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's Enid Blyton, absolutely. Unless you're talking about a beautifully-illustrated picture book by Shirley Barber... beautiful illustrations.
2007-03-14 06:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweetheart Fairies (Paperback)
by Cecile Schoberle (Author), Kathy Couri (Illustrator)
http://www.fairiesworld.com/fairybooks/fairybooks.shtml
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/BOOK-FAIRIES
http://www.amazon.com/Sweetheart-Fairies-Cecile-
2007-03-14 07:08:10 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur Conan Doyle.
2007-03-14 10:26:17 · answer #6 · answered by knowitall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enid Blyton - 'the fairy rings' - published 1993
2007-03-14 11:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enid Blyton?
2007-03-14 06:18:35 · answer #8 · answered by ChocLover 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Timothy O'Leary?
2007-03-14 08:12:38 · answer #9 · answered by punk bitch piece of shit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋