In 2012 it was ranked No. 15 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal", a monthly with a primarily US audience. ("A Little Princess" was ranked number 56 and "Little Lord Fauntleroy" did not make the Top 100.) Jeffrey Masson considers "The Secret Garden" "one of the greatest books ever written for children". In an oblique compliment, Barbara Sleigh has her title character reading "The Secret Garden" on the train at the beginning of her children's novel "Jessamy"; and Roald Dahl, in his children's book "Matilda", has his title character say that she liked "The Secret Garden" best of all the children's books in the library.