Tom's Midnight Garden
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192792426 (0192792423)
Publish date: January 3rd 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Middle Grade,
Time Travel
Tom’s brother has come down with measles and Tom is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle for the duration of his brother’s sickness. Tom is not happy about having to stay cooped up in a small apartment. And then everything changes. A clock strikes thirteen and Tom makes his way out a door and into a...
This story is magical and lovely and written in that style of English children's stories that I absolutely love (think The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and probably a few others I can't think of right now. It might come across as a slightly naive view of childhood, but I actually think it's pr...
This story is magical and lovely and written in that style of English children's stories that I absolutely love (think The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and probably a few others I can't think of right now. It might come across as a slightly naive view of childhood, but I actually think it's pr...
Poor Tom, forced to go away during the summer holiday while his brother suffers the measles, and kept indoors under quarantine. How old-fashioned is that? Between Tom's unattractive sulking and insomnia, my general lack of interest in gardening, and a personal fear that this was going to turn into...
Disease - Measles. Read by Cherryl Campbell; a BBC production.A lovely story.