THE SECRET GARDEN
PRAISE
“Paige Peterson is an exceptional artist whose illustrations
can even make old classics shine like new.”
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Zibby Owens, best-selling author, publisher and host
of the Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books podcast
“Every time you do a book we get so excited because our customers love the books and I love your books. You have such an incredible way of taking a classic and making it so appealing and yet still honoring the classic itself.”
Elaine Petrocelli, Founder and President of Book Passage
"This brand new beautiful edition of The Secret Garden by Paige Peterson and Jesse Kornbluth is just the thing for the new season of your life – any new season you choose. The story is timeless, vivid, created by pages of extraordinary color and delight by the delicious hand of Paige Peterson and even if you know the story you’ll live it again, love it and treasure it. It will make you feel young again!"
Judy Collins, award-winning singer songwriter
"The Secret Garden was one of my favorite childhood books! Paige Peterson and Jesse Kornbluth have renewed and polished this beloved children’s classic."
Joan Ganz Cooney, co-creator of Sesame Street
“I’ve always loved Paige Peterson’s illustrations — the ones she did for the book we created together, Blackie, the Horse Who Stood Still, were evocative and beautiful, and it’s all been uphill from there. For the wonderful abridgment of The Secret Garden that she and Jessie Kornbluth have just produced, Paige has truly outdone herself. She’s perfected a new painting-over-photographs technique to portray the old English architecture described in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic, and she couldn’t have made a more perfect choice. The new edition of The Secret Garden is absolutely stunning!”
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Christopher Cerf, award-winning record and children's television producer
“More than a hundred years after Frances Hodgson Burnett’s unforgettable and classic The Secret Garden was first published, comes this utterly magical and beautiful edition exalting in the healing power of children and of nature. It is now abridged and honored with 101 stunning works of art by Paige Peterson -- painting over photographs. An instant classic.”
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Lena Tabori, publisher of Paige’s award-winning Blackie,The Horse Who Stood Still
"The Secret Garden springs into existence yet again and into living color thanks to Paige Peterson’s scrumptious illustrations and Jesse Kornbluth’s masterful touch. An ode to love, friendship and unsurpassed beauty, this new version is bound to become your child's favorite book for years to come."
Jeffrey Hirsch, New York Social Diary
"This skillfully abridged version of The Secret Garden is a delight to read in its simplicity and wholesomeness, and yet it has a true substance that will elicit a child’s strong feelings. Additionally, Paige Peterson’s illustrations create a magical atmosphere for the story to unfold and capture a child’s imagination. This shorter version makes the book so much more accessible to young minds.
The Secret Garden is ideal to read to a younger child because both you and the child will get to participate in its innocence and its’ offering of possibility of joy and love in life. For a child now able to read for themselves it evokes the very sense of security and confidence that is needed for the child to open their mind to growing and learning.
For all these reasons The Secret Garden is great for parents with young children and a wonderful gift for parents with young children. I smiled with delight repeatedly while I read it."
Phillip Moffitt
Buddhist meditation teacher, founder of the Life Balance Institute
author of Dancing with Life and Emotional Chaos to Clarity
"Paige Peterson has done it again with her new updated children’s classic The Secret Garden. The multi-talented creative artist has not only enhanced photographs but has added her wonderfully interpretive drawings to the mix of illustrations. A true classic comes to life once again."
Harry Benson CBE
photographer
”Paige Peterson’s stunning illustrations animate a fresh reading of this superbly abridged classic for a new generation of readers. A truly gifted artist, she has regifted us a treasure.”
Owen Lewis
child psychiatrist and poet, author of Knock-knock and Field Light.
Elaine Petrocelli and Paige Peterson at Book Passage
