#49 in Middle grade
The Secret Garden
- 216
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Film 1993 +7
- On screen
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Our view
“The Secret Garden” is a gentle, hopeful children’s classic whose warmth comes from watching its young characters become a family of their own making. Adults who return to it can find the comfort intact, though some note that the book belongs to its era and that its attitudes call for a critical eye. Short, cosy, and well suited to a quiet afternoon.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine. Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by M. L. Kirk, and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Robinson. Several stage and film adaptations have been made of The Secret Garden.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 8 times — from 1918 to 2024.
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- SeriesAnime Himitsu no HanazonoIMDb
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 1,189 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 89% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Middle grade average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 94 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 1.1K | 92% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Secret Garden for?
The Secret Garden sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 216 pages — longer than 52% of the ranked books in Middle grade.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
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