Author

Philippa Pearce

31 standalones · 31 works in the catalog

1920–2006 · Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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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fantasy
horror
ghost stories
portal fantasy

Works

Type

Genre

25 of 31 works

Miss Mountain1951short story
Tom's Midnight Garden1958novelfantasy
At the River-Gates1977short story
Beckoned1977short story
Guess1977short story
Her Father's Attic1977short story
The Dear Little Man with His Hands in His Pockets1977short story
The Dog Got Them1977short story
The Running-Companion1977short story
The Shadow-Cage1977novelette
The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural1977collectionhorror
The Strange Illness of Mr. Arthur Cook1977short story
Black Eyes1981short story
Samantha and the Ghost1981short story
His Loving Sister1982short story
A Prince in Another Place1983short story
Who's Afraid?1984short story
The Road It Went By1985short story
A Christmas Pudding Improves with Keeping1986short story
Auntie1986short story
Mr. Hurrel's Tallboy1986short story
The Hirn1986short story
The Yellow Ball1986short story
Who's Afraid? and Other Strange Stories1986collection
Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories1995anthology