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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Book · Children's & YA books · 11 mentions · 5 subreddits · discussed in r/books, r/booksuggestions, r/audiobooks, r/Fantasy

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Pros

  • My personal favourites are ... the Secret Garden
  • I adored The Borrowers, The Secret Garden, A Girl Named Disaster, Shiva’s Fire, Shadow Spinner, Catherine Called Birdy, Harry Potter, and The Hobbit/LOTR when I was around nine or ten.
  • After reading The Secret Garden in 2nd grade I longed for my own secret garden 🥹.
  • I also wanted a secret garden and to be left the hell alone all day like Mary in "The secret garden".
  • A lot of the classic girls' novels might be good. A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, etc.

Cons

  • I just tried The Secret Garden and I couldn't handle the baby voices in it.
  • I'm listening to The Secret Garden as narrated by Kara Shallenberg and honestly if I didn't have this on as background noise to do chores to I'd DNF it 30 minutes in. It sounds like it was recorded through a tube. There's such a terrible...
  • The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still love it, but it’s that kind of stuff plus the glaring racism that stop me from recommending it to my nieces.
  • Parent context: The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still love it, but it’s that kind of stuff plus the glaring racism that stop me from recommending it to my nieces. Reply: The beginning of The Secret Garden....

Sentiment

7 positive (64%) · 2 mixed (18%) · 2 negative (18%)

Trust + time weighted score: +50% · raw score 45%

What redditors said (10 of 11)

My personal favourites are ... the Secret Garden
positive · u/B****4 · r/booksuggestions · comment · Feb 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗ · attribution unverified
I adored The Borrowers, The Secret Garden, A Girl Named Disaster, Shiva’s Fire, Shadow Spinner, Catherine Called Birdy, Harry Potter, and The Hobbit/LOTR when I was around nine or ten.
positive · u/b****e · r/Fantasy · comment · Aug 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
After reading The Secret Garden in 2nd grade I longed for my own secret garden 🥹.
positive · u/a****5 · r/books · comment · Aug 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I also wanted a secret garden and to be left the hell alone all day like Mary in "The secret garden".
positive · u/M****n · r/books · comment · Aug 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
A lot of the classic girls' novels might be good. A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, etc.
positive · u/R****8 · r/suggestmeabook · comment · Jul 23, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I just tried The Secret Garden and I couldn't handle the baby voices in it.
negative · u/r****t · r/audiobooks · Jul 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Secret Garden!
positive · u/A****s · r/booksuggestions · comment · Feb 23, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I'm listening to The Secret Garden as narrated by Kara Shallenberg and honestly if I didn't have this on as background noise to do chores to I'd DNF it 30 minutes in. It sounds like it was recorded through a tube. There's such a terrible echo, like the narrator isn't anywhere close enough to the mic.
negative · u/b****s · r/audiobooks · Feb 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still love it, but it’s that kind of stuff plus the glaring racism that stop me from recommending it to my nieces.
mixed · u/o****r · r/books · comment · Feb 9, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Parent context: The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still love it, but it’s that kind of stuff plus the glaring racism that stop me from recommending it to my nieces. Reply: The beginning of The Secret Garden. Mary was basically left on her own while everyone around her was dying of Cholera.
mixed · u/b****1 · r/books · comment · Feb 9, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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