BBC Children’s Classics: Tom's Midnight Garden : A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation (CD-Audio)

from rainpebble

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce; (4 1/2*) Tom Long is a young lad with a brother, Peter, who has come down with measles. So Tom must be sent away to prevent becoming ill with them himself. His parents send him off to his aunt & uncle who unlike Tom, who lives in a house with a garden, li...

from boeflak

No book left such an impression on me in childhood, and I was a reading addict. I pored over Verne, Conan-Doyle, Heinlein, Clark, Carroll, Barrie, Pease, Norton, Kierkegaard, all of the Action Comics heroes and more. Yet this simple, elegant tale of first love, the dawning of adolescence and the ...

from booker11

This is an absolute classic! Read it as a child and re-read as an adult. Tom goes to live with relatives in the countryside to avoid catching measles from his sibling. His boredom in his new surroundings is short-lived when the grandfather clock strikes 13!!! He goes off exploring to find that th...

from marnanel

This is a classic of kidlit, something everyone should have read. Tom is staying with relatives in a large old house that has been divided into flats. It's dull and he's bored until time slips and he finds himself in the same house many years earlier. There he befriends an equally miserable child...

from LibraryLou

This is another brilliant children's book about a boy, Tom, who goes to stay in an old house, where he discovers he can go back in time via the old clock in the hall.