![]() Yes, magic is part of Burnett’s world, but the story’s latest big-screen adaptation stretches that concept to strange ends, and not all of them benefit the film. And still, even it relied on a plucky robin to guide its heroine, the sassy Mary Lennox, to a literal key that opens the titular Secret Garden. While Burnett’s 1911 novel never shied from the rough stuff - like most of her work, the book is concerned with orphans and illness - it used real-world pains to make its pleasures richer. ![]() We’re talking, of course, about the robin redbreast, a cheery, chattering little bird responsible for one of the story’s biggest revelations. There’s always been magic in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “ The Secret Garden,” a classic children’s story that, for all its harsh lessons about the nature of the world, relies on some pretty strange twists of fate to deliver its story. ![]()
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