The Secret Garden play

We enjoy attending plays occasionally as part of our homeschool literature studies. On Tuesday, we attended The Secret Garden play with some homeschooling friends from church. The kids loved it. The actors did a great job with the story. We have listened to various Secret Garden books on tape, as well as the different movie productions of the story. The Secret Garden is certainly one of our all-time favorite stories so far! The kids' favorite version is by Focus on the Family, which we listened to again on the way to and from the play. It was fun for me to listen to the kids discuss the differences between the "story" and the play's portrayal of events. For C, it's still harder for him to think of the book as the "real" story, and maybe because he's more visual, refers to the movie as the authentic version. Incidently, The Secret Garden is the only book I remember my mother reading to me as a kid. (I had spent the night at a friend's house and her mother read to us from the book. My mom had to get our own copy so we could read it. I wouldn't let up until she did!) And when I was about 9 yrs. old, we traveled to Montana from Oregon, and my sister and I play-acted scenes from the book in our host's gardens and back yard. It was such fun!