by Philippa Pearce · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192717771
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«Tom's Midnight Garden» is Philippa Pearce's children's fantasy novel, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Tom hears thirteen chimes from the grandfather clock and discovers a garden that everyone assures him does not exist. That midnight garden becomes his nightly refuge, a magical space where he lives adventures he will not forget, in a story about friendship and imagination.
Originally published in 1958, it won the Carnegie Medal. This 1998 edition belongs to the Oxford Children's Modern Classics collection.
Aimed at child and young adult readers from about 9 years old, and at those who enjoy fantasy classics.
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL was an English author of children's books. Best known of those books is the time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times.
