Topping that list is Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford, whose 2013 book Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure ... telling me they would like to colour my drawings,” Basford told me in an email.

For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured. It remains one of the great classics of children’s literature, a book that ...

Eventually, she manages to draw Colin out of his room ... who may be attuned to the book’s colonialist ideologies. The Secret Garden opens in select cinemas today.

From the day it first opened in 1977, Secret Garden Books has been an essential part of Seattle’s bookselling community. Founded by children’s book author Nancy White Carlstrom in its original ...