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Photo Credits

Many thanks to Flickr and the fine photographers who took and shared the pictures you see in these books. We only use pictures that have been shared with the Creative Commons license and those with no known copyright. You may click on photo credits link in any book to link to the pages on Flickr for the photos. Of course, the pictures remain the property of photographers who took them and all the restrictions they placed on their use still apply.

If you object to the use of your pictures in these books for kids with disabilities, just let me know and I’ll take the book down.

To see the credits for any book, click the Settings  menu in the upper right and select More, the link will be near the bottom of that page.

The Secret Garden

Click on the links below to go to the Flickr page for each photograph.

 Flickr Mary Lennox lives in India with her parents.
 Flickr Nobody really cares for Mary. She is sad.
 Flickr Everyone in her house gets sick.
 Flickr Mary hides in a room. The next day when she wakes up, almost everyone is dead.
 Flickr Mary is sent to live with her uncle in England.
 Flickr Mary's uncle lives in a big house with lots of locked rooms. It is not a good place for a child to grow up in.
 Flickr Mary meets the old gardener named Ben. Ben has a bird.
 Flickr The bird and Mary become friends.
 Flickr There is a secret garden at the house. The bird gives Mary the key to get in the secret garden.
 Flickr Mary hears someone crying in the garden. She searches for the source of the noise.
 Flickr Mary finds a boy named Colin. He is her cousin. He cannot walk or stand up.
 Flickr Mary takes him into the secret garden, and he learns how to walk.
 Flickr Mary is very happy now. She loves the secret garden and is happy to be at her uncle's house.
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