If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.--- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a vel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is w one of Burnett's most popular vels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced. Public reception Marketing to both adult and juvenile audiences may have had an effect on its early reception; the book was t as celebrated as Burnett's previous works during her lifetime. The Secret Garden paled in comparison to the popularity of Burnett's other works for a long period. Tracing the book's revival from almost complete eclipse at the time of Burnett's death in 1924, Anne H. Lundin ted that the author's obituary tices all remarked on Little Lord Fauntleroy and passed over The Secret Garden in silence. With the rise of scholarly work in children's literature over the past quarter-century, The Secret Garden has steadily risen to prominence, and is w one of Burnett's best-kwn works. The book is often ted as one of the best children's books of the twentieth century. In 2003, the vel was listed at number 51 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children. It was one of the Top 100 Chapter Books of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. Jeffrey Masson considers it, one of the greatest books ever written for children.