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
"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 39 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
"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
