Rainbow Garden (Patricia St John Series)

by Patricia St. John

Other authorsGary Rees (Author), Mary Mills (Author)
Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

817

Publication

Moody Publishers (2002), Edition: New, 168 pages

Description

When she is sent from her London home to live in the Welsh countryside with the large, boisterous Owen family, eleven-year-old Elaine feels miserable and resentful until she discovers an abandoned garden and determines to make it her secret sanctuary.

User reviews

LibraryThing member mydomino1978
I won this book more than 35 years ago in a Bible verse contest and I still re-read the story of the spoiled, lonely, only child and her search for happiness.
LibraryThing member sparkleandchico
This is a great Christian children's book. Elaine moves from the city to the country determined to despise everything and everyone but she slowly learns that it is in helping others that she finds her true happiness.

Recommended for children and teens.
LibraryThing member foggidawn
11-year-old Elaine is sent from London to the countryside while her mother takes a job in Europe. At first, Elaine resents her situation, especially being foisted off on a boisterous family with six other children who don't seem to want her there, but then she finds an abandoned garden that she
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decides to make into her own special place.

If this sounds a bit like a cut-rate Secret Garden, you're not entirely wrong, though the garden is only really important in the first half of the story. The main plot centers on Elaine's discovery of Christianity and the development of her newfound faith. It's all terribly earnest, as is typical of mid-century religious writing for children, though there's some adventure by way of a mountain holiday and a desperate robber toward the end of the book. I can see this book finding a place in a church library. My edition says it's been revised with more modern language, but I'm not familiar with the original, so I can't tell you what's been changed.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1960

Physical description

7.5 inches

ISBN

1785062875 / 9781785062872
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