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Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's fantasy novel by English author Philippa Pearce. It was first published in 1958 by Oxford University Press with illustrations by Susan Einzig.
When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away for the summer to stay with his uncle and aunt and is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then, lying in bed one night, he hears the old grandfather clock in the hall strike the very strange hour of 13 o'clock.
Oct 30, 1992 · “Tom’s Midnight Garden” upends the icon of Time and spills out fresh and tempting possibilities. Tom, quarantined from his measles-stricken younger brother, is sent to stay with his prim aunt and uncle who rent a flat partitioned from a once-grand house.
- Philippa Pearce
Apr 7, 2000 · Tom's Midnight Garden: Directed by Willard Carroll. With Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway, Serena Gordon, Alfie Lawrence. A young boy journeys across the boundaries of reality to a secret, haunted place, half-a-century back in time, in this tale of enchantment, shadows and lost memories.
Apr 3, 2018 · Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Tom’s Midnight Garden is a classic of children’s literature and a deeply satisfying time-travel mystery. This newly repackaged sixtieth-anniversary paperback is the perfect entrée for readers of all ages to the vivid world that The Guardian called “A modern classic.”
- Philippa Pearce
When Tom hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen he is not prepared for what is going to happen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him doesn't exist. But the magical...
Apr 2, 2015 · Tom races down the stairs and out the back door, into a garden everyone told him wasn't there. In this enchanted thirteenth hour, the garden comes alive - but...