The Secret Garden on 81st Street- A Modern Graphic Retelling of The Secret Garden by Ivy Noelle Weir
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Web ID: 163977349-Year-Old Loves It!!
I took my daughter to Barnes & Noble to pick out a book to inspire her to read more. She picked up this gem and fell in love! For the first time she was enjoying reading and my heart could burst! This book is inclusive and captivating. She found it interesting and exciting! Every day she could not wait to tell me what she read today!!! I highly recommend this book for young readers! As follow up I bought her Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo, she also enjoyed that book as well!!
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Wonderful Graphic Novel!
This graphic novel is so wholesome and cute but also touches on grief and anxiety, and I loved it so much. I really resonated with the grief and anxiety, what they said about how they felt and how they deal with it. We start off following a young girl who just moved to New York to her Uncles house. I like the setting of New York in this, getting to see the places she went like the museums was nice. The story is very strong, it’s a young adult but could reach younger or older people too. It talks about anxiety and grief and kind of teaches how they affect people differently. I think if you deal with those things, it’s nice to see them represented. If you don’t, this is a great look at what it’s like for people who do. It’s a bit heavy at times but it's a really cute story, it touched me and made me so happy. The relationships that Mary forms with several people in this just made me smile, with Colin and Dickon and Ben. I loved it so much! I just picked it up because of the title and I’m so glad I did. I didn’t even realize until after that it’s a modern retelling of The Secret Garden. (I thought it was a completely different story because of the On 81st St part in the title and I've never read the Secret Garden before). The art style isn't amazing, it's pretty simple but the story is so strong that it didn't bother me.
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Lovely retelling
This is kind of a retelling for the Secret Garden but in a graphic novel form and brought to our times. It tackled serious issues such as anxiety and depression very good and managed to get through positive messages. I also loved the illustrations
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Fun Graphic Novel Retelling of a Classic
I received an arc of The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir with illustrations by Amber Padilla as part of book tour hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours. The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir is a cute, modern retelling of the classic The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I read the original as a child and I was fan of the movie too. So I’m familiar with the story. Most names and the general essence of the original story remain the same, but there are refreshing changes that make this graphic novel its own unique story about grief, family and healing. In this new version, there is added diversity and some names given to Colin’s issues that were left as mysterious health issues in the original. Mary is a child who was basically babysat by electronics. It’s difficult for her to understand family and friendships because she has been so immersed in technology as a substitute for everything. Dickon is still a chill kid with a green thumb who becomes Mary’s friend. Colin is still a recluse, but he now has a diagnosis called a panic disorder connected to his dad, Masahiro’s sudden death. Colin also has two dads, one of them being Mary’s uncle Archie. Dealing With Grief I liked how the book addresses several different ways the characters are handling their grief. Each one processes and reacts differently to the death of a loved one. Each character has an understanding of what they feel, but during the story they are on a journey of healing and trying to accept those feelings while being open to the next stage in the grief process. I think both adults and children will love this book. As an educator, I can see benefits to kids who have suffered the loss of a parent of loved one reading this as a means of exploring their own grief and finding comfort in the process. But most importantly knowing that they will heal. It would be a nice buddy read with a parent and child too.
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