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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19940109
Author:ANN BARR

WHEN the film of The Secret Garden opened in Britain last autumn, lovers of the book - first published in 1911 and still a healthy seller - were quick to spot every deviation from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original. Rather less critical attention was paid to a third form of the work, the new "novelisation" by Jan Carr, one-twentieth the length of the novel and destined to sit brazenly on bookshop stands marked "Film & TV Tie- ins". Such novelisations are growing in popularity, but are they a cunning way of bringing children to literature, or are they junk food cynically designed to bypass the ...

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