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Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden

by Philippa Pearce
Downloadable audio file, CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/11/1999

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This is a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Philippa Pearce's enchanting children's tale starring Una Stubbs and Crawford Logan. These audio editions, especially dramatised for BBC Radio, are of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of readers both young and old. The wonder and excitement of these much-loved tales live on in these acclaimed full-cast dramatisations, complete with evocative music and sound effects. 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 thirteen o'clock. What can it mean? As Tom creeps downstairs and opens the door, he finds out...a magical garden, a new playmate and the adventure of a lifetime.
ISBN:
9781846071096
9781846071096
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Downloadable audio file, CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-11-1999
Publisher:
BBC Audio A Division Of Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
2
Dimensions (mm):
127x140x10mm
Philippa Pearce

Philippa Pearce and illustrator Helen Craig share two grandsons, Nat and Will, the sons of their children Sally and Ben. Philippa wrote A Finder's Magic for Helen to illustrate, and the name of the book's hero, "Tillawn" (Till), is an amalgam of the boys' names.

The peculiar relationship between the old and the very young is a constant theme in Philippa's writing and when, late in life, she had the "unexpected delight" of two small grandsons, it gave her a renewed burst of creative energy.

She called being a grandmother "a privilege, a rare, almost inexplicable pleasure - not just fun but something different, more." Philippa Pearce died in December 2006. The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture is held annually in September.

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