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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English author of children's books. Best known of them 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.

English - Author | January 22, 1920 - December 21, 2006

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a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

Philippa Pearce

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

Philippa Pearce

The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his child-characters in reverse - makes the connection between their present childhood and their future maturity. That their maturity is never visibly achieved makes no difference; the promise of it is there.

Philippa Pearce

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Philippa Pearce

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