Orphaned, sour-tempered Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's bleak Yorkshire manor, where discovering and reviving a walled, neglected garden with the moor boy Dickon and her invalid cousin Colin heals both the children and the grieving household.
Books mentioned in The Secret Garden (1)
Riquet a la Houppe by Charles Perrault: “She had just remembered a French fairy story she had once read called "Riquet a la Houppe."”
Books that mention The Secret Garden (2)
Matilda by Roald Dahl: “"I liked The Secret Garden best of all. It was full of mystery," Matilda said.”
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk: “Poor Mary Lennox, child-heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.”