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Philippa Pearce

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Philippa Pearce


Born
in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, The United Kingdom
January 22, 1920

Died
December 21, 2006

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Philippa Pearce was an acclaimed English author of children’s literature, best remembered for her classic time-slip novel Tom’s Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal and remains a staple of British children’s fiction. Raised in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, in the Mill House by the River Cam, Pearce drew lifelong inspiration from her rural upbringing. Educated at the Perse School for Girls and Girton College, Cambridge, she studied English and History before working as a civil servant and later producing schools’ radio programmes for the BBC.
Her debut, Minnow on the Say (1955), inspired by local landscapes and a childhood canoe trip, was a Carnegie runner-up and later adapted for television. Tom’s Midnight Garden, also rooted
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Tom's Midnight Garden

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4.05 avg rating — 27,562 ratings — published 1958 — 138 editions
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Minnow on the Say

4.09 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 1955 — 35 editions
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A Dog So Small

3.84 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1962 — 33 editions
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The Way to Sattin Shore

3.76 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1983 — 28 editions
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The Battle of Bubble and Sq...

3.40 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1978 — 30 editions
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A Finder's Magic

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The Little Gentleman

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Amy's Three Best Things

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The Shadow Cage, and Other ...

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The Squirrel Wife

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“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

“A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong.”
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

“Good-bye, Mrs Bartholemew," said tom, shaking hands with stiff politeness; "and thank you very much for having me."
"I shall look forward to our meeting again," said Mrs Bartholemew, equally primly.
Tom went slowly down the attic stairs. Then, at the bottom, he hesitated: he turned impulsively and ran up again - two at a time - to where Hatty Bartholemew still stood...
Afterwards, Aunt Gwen tried to describe to her husband that second parting between them. "He ran up to her, and they hugged each other as if they had known each other for years and years, instead of only having met for the first time this morning. There was something else, too, Alan, although I know you'll say it sounds even more absurd...Of course, Mrs Bartholemew's such a shrunken little old woman, she's hardly bigger than Tom; anyway: but, you know, he put his arms right round her and he hugged her good-bye as if she were a little girl.”
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

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What is your favorite time travel book? (Please add it if it's not already here).

 
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Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon OutlanderOutlander (write-in)
 
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Red River, Vol. 1 (Red River, #1) by Chie Shinohara Anatolia Story by Chie Shinohara (Note by admin: This is actually a Manga graphic novel series know as Red River in the English translation but a notable entry in this chart)
 
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The Map of Time (Trilogía Victoriana, #1) by Félix J. Palma The Map of Time (write-in)
 
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Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3) by Connie Willis Blackout by Connie Willis (write-in)
 
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Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson Somewhere in Time (write-in)
 
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Unhappenings
 
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (write-in)
 
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