![]() When Tom Long's brother Peter gets measles, Tom is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen. At night he slips back in time to the old garden where he finds a girl playmate, called Hatty. Tom is a modern boy living under quarantine with his aunt and uncle in a city flat, part of a converted building that was a country house during the 1880s–1890s. In 2007, for a celebration of the Carnegie Medal's 70th anniversary, a panel named Tom's Midnight Garden one of the top ten Medal-winning works and the British public elected it the nation's second-favourite. Pearce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. It has been reissued in print many times and also adapted for radio, television, the cinema, and the stage. It was first published in 1958 by Oxford University Press with illustrations by Susan Einzig. ![]() Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's fantasy novel by Philippa Pearce. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |