Tom's Midnight Garden

by Phillipa Pierce

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Tom's Midnight Garden Questions and Answers

How does Tom's Midnight Garden create a strong sense of place in relation to the depiction of childhood?

Discuss the theme of time in Tom's Midnight Garden.

How is child agency portrayed in Tom's Midnight Garden?

Discuss the theme of nature and companionship in Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pierce.

How are the themes of childhood, adulthood, and old age explored within Philippa Pearce's novel Tom's Midnight Garden?

Analyze the final chapter from Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden and discuss this ending.

How does Tom change his mind in chapter 7 of Tom's Midnight Garden?

Why is Tom in Tom's Midnight Garden invisible in the garden?

In Tom's Midnight Garden, how does Pearce create/reflect beliefs of the nature of childhood?

How do the barometer, grandfather clock, and ice skates function as symbols in Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden? 

How is Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pierce considered a crossover novel?

Describe Tom's conversation with Uncle Alan in Tom's Midnight Garden.

How relevant is Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden to today’s reader? Select a few themes from the novel to support your arguments.

Who's the main character of Tom's Midnight Garden?

Is the depiction of the garden in Tom's Midnight Garden intended for child or adult readers?

What happens near the end of the story? am very confused .....

Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden is quite moving and heartwarming. Discuss with reference to the novel.

How important as a place is the garden in Tom's Midnight Garden in establishing the central themes of the novel?

Please give me an analysis of Tom's Midnight Garden.

What is the construction of freedom in Tom's Midnight Garden?

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 Why, or why isn’t, Tom’s Midnight Garden a masterpiece of twentieth-century children’s literature?

In Tom's Midnight Garden, what pedagogic purposes are established in relation to the  place of the garden?