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Philippa Pearce
AuthorBooks · Second hand1920-2006
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL was an English author of children's books. Best known of those books 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.
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About Philippa Pearce
Birth
1920
Death
2006
First book
1958
Years writing
68
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL was an English author of children's books. Best known of those books 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.
Philippa Pearce was a prominent British author dedicated to children's literature.
Her most famous work, Tom's Midnight Garden, is an undisputed classic of juvenile fiction.
Throughout her prolific career, she published a total of 64 literary works.
Born in the county of Cambridge, she occasionally used the pseudonym Warrener to sign her texts.
Her literary legacy spans from fiction novels to short stories for young readers.
