Title: The painted garden
Description: This is a children's novel about an English family who travel to California.  It focuses on the cross-grained Jane, whose personality alone lands her the role of Mary in a film version of *The Secret Garden* by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Colin is played by a famous child actor, and Dickon by a boy who has an amazing gift with animals.  A great deal of the book is concerned with the making of the film.
Subjects: Family, Fiction, Children's stories, English, Motion picture industry, Child actors, Children's fiction, Great britain, fiction
Places: California, Los Angeles
Time periods: 1940s