Full disclosure, I do not like the "original" The Secret Garden. I read it for the first time earlier this year and thus have no fond childhood memories attached to it, and I know I'm in the minority there, but I guess it puts things into perspective when I say I quite enjoyed this.

First off, the things I don't like from the actual book, the racism, colonialism, Mary and Colin being utterly absurdly awful, you know, the works, are addressed at the end of this one, as well as the reasons as to why they chose to remove those things from this adaptation. I really liked that, because it's not actually a different story, but with the original fresh in mind it was almost jarring to read the same story and it was so different, but in a good way?

Anyway, it really is just what it says on the tin: a graphic novel adaptation of The Secret Garden. At times more art than words (and what art, the illustrations are super soft and gentle and the colours are just.. yes) it's a great supplement to the original and I could imagine it would be great in a classroom for kids of all ages.