looking for a children’s book prior to 1982 about a girl who finds an overgrown garden and I think the statues come alive. It is not The Secret Garden.
looking for a children’s book prior to 1982 about a girl who finds an overgrown garden and I think the statues come alive. It is not The Secret Garden.
This feels like a long shot, but maybe Beloved Benjamin is Waiting https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/913797.Beloved_Benjamin_Is_Waiting ?
Not really similar but possible: a boy discovered that in his (friend’s? aunt’s?) garden, once you wash your eyes with water from the dolphin fountain, you can interact with the shadows who live there. Betty Brock, The Shades.
Maybe Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron. Another possibility, (although the main Character is a boy, not a girl) is The Shades, by Betty Brock.
Was there also a TV show made of this in England
Is it the enchanted Castle by E Nesbitt? That has an overgrown garden with marble statues that come alive, and there’s a princess who lives there and some kids who discover it.
Sounds like Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron.
Was it The Yellow House by Blake Morrison?
The Stonewalkers by Vivian Alcock?
Stoneflight by George McHargue?