*AUDIOBOOK VERSION* 
 With my job entailing A LOT of driving from store to store. I'm talking about like 30-45min drive to my first store than in and out of stores all day for the next 6-7 hours with a 15min drive between each store. It's a lot of car time. So audio books have become my latest obsession. Workout time = listen to some jams, but drive time I need something to keep me more awake and engaged ha. 
 I LOVED A little Princess by Frances H. Burnett so I thought I would give this audio book a go as well. I think I'm only giving it a 4/5 stars when I compare it to A little Princess. Other than that it was really well written though it did have its faults. 
 "Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it." The premise: Little Mary awakens to a house which had been struck by the cholera epidemic. All her life she'd been a spoiled little brat from a rich family that didn't even know how to dress herself without her servants doing everything for her. She is sent to live with an uncle eventually in England (from India) to be taken care of. The maids at this manor refuse to be her servants though and tell Mary that she must entertain herself. Mary learns to be self-sufficient, less snobby, and a more caring person throughout the premise of this story. 
 "Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places." 
 I loved the idea of a garden being a key plot point. A garden where everything heals and grows back to life. The way it inspired Colin to get up, Mary to do good, and Mr. Craven to stop being such a mope. 
 When I was younger and read/watched this story is seemed more of a tale of adventure. About children finding a secret hiding place of their own where adults could never bother or find them. Now reading it as an adult I find myself focusing more of the story of the children and their relationships with others.