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Tom's Midnight Garden by: Philippa Pearce List Price: £5.99 CD-Charts Price: £3.99 You Save: £2.00 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780192792426 ISBN: 0192792423 Label: OUP Oxford Manufacturer: OUP Oxford Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2008-01 Publisher: OUP Oxford Studio: OUP Oxford Sales Rank: 421 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Exciting!So far its a really exciting book because I'm just waiting to see what happens as I am very nearly at the end. Its very good the book, everyone should read it. My mummy reads it very well to me. I really like it because its fascinating to think that you can go back in time. Its full of magic in the garden and my favourite character is Hatty because she's sort of like me (tom-boy). by Eloise Aged 8. Rating: - a story for all time, all agesThis is a classic story for children, set in the 50's, it is about time, memory and friendship. Tom, lonely and isolated as he is in quarantine, finds his way back in time, at night (when the hall clock strikes 13), to a wonderful old garden and a little girl called Hattie, who, to his curiosity, is dressed in old fashioned clothes. The two lonely children become friends and I don't want to give away the beautifully devoloped plot, but Tom slowly realises that Hattie is growing up, while he remains the same age. The atmosphere of the story is both mysterious and engaging, as Tom slowly works out where he is and who Hattie really is. The end of the story takes in the biblical idea of time coming to and end, or the modern notion ... Read More: Rating: - Let your imagination soar into your own midnight gardenTom, quarantined from his brother's measles and sent off to relatives, faces several weeks in a house converted into flats with no other kids, no playground and nothing at all for a boy of his age to do. A grandfather clock that tells the correct time but clangs different hours stands in the hallway of the house. One night, when the clock chimes a mysterious thirteenth hour, Tom goes down to investigate. What he finds is an entirely different house with rich decorations and carpeting. And, behind the back door that in the daytime gives out to an alley, is his fondest wish - a vast garden to play in and a friend with whom to explore every tree and hedge and even the meadow and river beyond. Time is the great mystery in this ... Read More: Rating: - Essential reading, A beautiful and tradtional story of magic, freindship & growing up. Adored by my children, loved by me. Every school shelf should be stocked with this classic and every home shelf too. When the trend for books is to 'gross out' young readers, this story reminds us that there is and always will be space for beautifully written well told enchanting stories. Rating: - A timeless classicTom is sent away to stay with his uncle and aunt in their small flat when his brother gets the measles. He misses his brother and their garden but one magical night, the grandfather clock in the hall strikes thirteen and Tom discovers a secret garden outside. Over the next few weeks, he spends time in the garden and befriends Hatty, a lonely orphan girl. But time obeys different rules in the "midnight garden" and gradually Hatty grows up and away from Tom... This is a breathtakingly beautiful book. Not only are the descriptions of the garden and the frozen river lovely and evocative but the book raises all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of time, about ghosts, about dreams, about growing up and about the power of the imagination. ... Read More: |
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