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Jan 1, 1920 — Jan 1, 2006· 86 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · CHILDREN · FICTION

Philippa Pearce

Also known as: A. Philippa Pearce, Ann Philippa Pearce

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Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) 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.

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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F, standing alone on the back doorstep, Tom allowed himself to weep tears, they were tears of anger.

— from Tom's Midnight Garden, 1999

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Fresh

1988

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While playing in the river, two cousins discover a live mussel and decide to keep it as a pet.

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Tom's Midnight Garden

1999

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Daytime life for Tom is dull, but each night he participates in the lives of the former inhabitants of the old house in which he is spending an enforced vacation.

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Minnow on the Say

1955

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Two English boys, David and Adam, spend the summer canoeing on the River Say and, with just an old riddle for a clue, try to find a treasure hidden along its banks by one of Adam's ancestors.

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