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 Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's novel by Philippa Pearce. It is generally regarded as a masterpiece of English children's literature, and won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in 1958, the year of its publication. It has been adapted for radio,...
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 The Daily Mail (London, England) Midnight Garden author dies at 86.
01/03/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages Byline: LUCY BALLINGER PHILIPPA Pearce, author of the children's classic Tom's Midnight Garden, has died at the age of 86. The novel was named last year as one of the ten books every child should read. Tom's Midnight Garden won... summary from source:
Daily Mail Midnight Garden author dies at 86
01/03/2007: 359 words, approx. 1 pages PHILIPPA Pearce, author of the children's classic Tom's Midnight Garden, has died at the age of 86. The novel was named last year as one of the ten books every child should read. Tom's Midnight Garden won the Carnegie Medal on its...
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 Critical Essay by Lesley Aers
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There is the most explicit attempt in Tom's Midnight Garden to understand the nature of time, one's attitude to it, its relation to one's own existence. Many aspects come over powerfully: the child growing up and changing; the destruction of the garden and its transformation into a housing estate; and a mean little yard mirroring a whole changed pattern of society. But I think that Philippa Pearce's resistance to the new polluted environment loses its impact because it becomes id... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
438 words, approx. 2 pages
Personal experience, transmuted by imagination and fine writing—these are found … in Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden. In this story, time loses its limits. (p. 122) Although time stands still in Tom's world while he is in the past, it does not stand still for Hatty [Tom's playmate in the garden]. She is growing up even as Tom plays with her, and the magic, the wonder of the garden, the transcending of time must come to an end with the ending of her childhood... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Frank Eyre
354 words, approx. 1 pages
[Tom's Midnight Garden is] the perfect fantasy of our time…. This deeply moving, beautifully written and completely convincing time-fantasy is one of the most perfectly conceived and executed children's books of the past twenty years. (p. 128) The author makes beautifully subtle and complex use of [the] time-shift….
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