The Secret Garden: A BabyLit Storybook

Description

Age range 3 to 5 BabyLit Storybooks are a great way to introduce young readers to the classics, with easy to read storylines and bright illustrations. They are part of the bestselling BabyLit series, which provides a literary education for your brilliant children. In The Secret Garden, preschoolers befriend robins and other animals along with Mary, Dickon, Martha, and Colin, experiencing the transformative magic of a well-loved garden. Little readers not only see the garden flourish, but they watch how Mary and Colin blossom with attention and friendship. Quotes from the original text are woven throughout this retelling, and the beautiful artwork creates a book to be treasured through childhood and beyond. BabyLit(R) primers have become the chic, smart way to introduce babies to the most beloved and readable literature of our time. Now a delightful collection of lap books for early readers and their parents is available. Each book in the BabyLit(R) Storybook series retells a story from literary canon with easy-to-follow text and charming artwork.

After training as an editor in London, Mandy Archer went on to become the Head of Children's Books for BBC Worldwide, nurturing such characters as Wallace & Gromit, Bob the Builder, and the Teletubbies. Since then she has written all kinds of titles, ranging from board books for babies right up to teen fiction. She also enjoys talking to children in schools about fairy tales and story writing. Mandy and her family live near a racecourse on Epsom Downs, England. Jane Newland is an illustrator from Norwich, Norfolk UK. With a degree in illustration from Maidstone College of Art, she's done freelance work for a range of companies from Tesco to John Lewis to Miracle-Gro as well as crafting delightful artwork for children's books.