Philipa Pearce’s 1958 Tom’s Midnight Garden (Harper Trophy, $5.95, 229 pp., ages 10 and up) is considered one of the finest novels written for children, "as near as any book I know to being perfect in its construction and writing" according to critic John Rowe Townsend. But I think Pearce’s recently republished first novel, Minnow on the Say (illustrated by (...)
Children's Books
Big Questions for Small Readers
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