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Philippa Pearce Books In Order

Novels

  1. Minnow on the Say (1955)
  2. Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
  3. Still Jim and Silent Jim (1959)
  4. A Dog So Small (1962)
  5. The Children of the House (1968)
  6. The Elm Street Lot (1969)
  7. The Squirrel Wife (1971)
  8. The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1979)
  9. The Way to Sattin Shore (1983)
  10. Freddy (1988)
  11. Old Belle’s Summer Holiday (1989)
  12. In the Middle of the Night (1990)
  13. At the River-gates (1996)
  14. The Pedlar of Swaffham (2001)
  15. The Ghost in Annie’s Room (2001)
  16. The Little Gentleman (2004)
  17. A Finder’s Magic (2008)

Omnibus

  1. A Dog So Small / The Way to Sattin Shore (1994)

Collections

  1. What the Neighbors Did (1972)
  2. Lion at School (1973)
  3. The Shadow-Cage (1977)
  4. Who’s Afraid? (1986)
  5. The Rope and Other Stories (2000)
  6. Familiar and Haunting (2002)

Picture Books

  1. Mrs. Co*ckle’s cat (1961)
  2. Emily’s Own Elephant (1987)
  3. The Tooth Ball (1987)
  4. Here Comes Tod! (1992)
  5. Beauty and the Beast (1996)
  6. Little White Hen (1996)
  7. Amy’s Three Best Things (2003)

Anthologies edited

  1. Dread and Delight (1995)
  2. A Century of Children’s Ghost Stories (1996)

Non fiction

  1. From Inside Scotland Yard (1965)

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Philippa Pearce Books Overview

Minnow on the Say

David can’t believe his luck when a worn wooden canoe mysteriously appears on the banks of the River Say behind his house. With summer stretching endlessly before him, it seems too good to be true. Soon there is another boy Adam, the Minnow’s rightful owner. Adam wants his boat back…
but something else, too: a trustworthy friend to help him find the long lost ancestral jewels that could save his family from financial disaster!Can two boys find what history has kept an untouchable secret for hundreds of years? Or will they lose the race against timeand against another treasure seeker lurking at the river’s edge.

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Tom was a cross and resentful boy when he was sent to stay with his uncle and aunt because his brother, Peter, had caught the measles. As soon as he joined his relatives in their small apartment, he knew he would be bored and lonely. He would miss Peter as well as the garden at home where they used to play. Now he had no friends his own age, and, instead of a garden to explore, there was only a paved yard and a row of garbage cans outside the back door. When the time came for Tom to go home, however, he did everything he could to prolong his visit. For he had made a strange and wonderful discovery a discovery that he could share with no one, except Peter. And Peter believed it all, and even, for one brief moment, came to share in Tom’s fantastic midnight adventure. Philippa Pearce has created an enchanting story of the world of the imagination. The originality and charm of Tom’s Midnight Garden have won for it a distinguished place in England, and it has taken its place among the best books for children on this side of the Atlantic as well.

A Dog So Small

Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin!

The Children of the House

Set before the first First World War, this book tells the story of Tom, Laura, Hugh, and Margaret, whose home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countryside. Despite their privileged background, the children are not always happy their parents are stern and Tom is sent away to boarding school. But when the holidays come, everything changes and the four of them have many adventures together in the vast grounds of the house. BL Originally published in 1968, this is a welcome reissue of a book which ‘movingly shows the close bond between the ‘upper class’ children and servants in a great house, when both feared and suffered the hand of authority.’ 20th Century Children’s Writers

The Squirrel Wife

A kind young man is rewarded with a bride who is kin to the wild in this beautiful, original fairy tale. The green people in the woods are feared by all all except swineherd Jack, who dares to venture into the forest to answer a cry for help. Jack’s heroism unveils the true nature of the green people and earns him an idyllic life with a woman he loves. But can they survive the ignorance around them? Magical storytelling and luminous woodland scenes easily transport readers to another time and place.

The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

Sid Parker hoped no one would hear the squeaking noise coming from the kitchen pantry, but he was out of luck. Wakened by the eerie sound, his mother persuaded Bill, Sid’s stepfather, to investigate. Discovering the culprits, a pair of gerbils named Bubble and Squeak, his mother declared the pair had to go. But in Bill, Sid found an unexpected ally. 2 cassettes.

The Way to Sattin Shore

When a tombstone with her father’s name suddenly disappears from the graveyard, Kate, an English school girl, witnesses the unraveling of a mystery surrounding the death of her father.

At the River-gates

This is one in a series of ‘Penguin Children’s 60s’ titles.

The Little Gentleman

One day old Mr. Franklin asks Bet to go out to the field and read aloud from a book about earthworms. Why? Who is listening? Soon, Bet becomes the most trusted friend of her listener, who turns out to be a bewitched mole. At first she and the mole simply sit together in their field, reading, talking, sharing hopes and fears. But soon Bet is helping The Little Gentleman unravel his long and legendary past a past that includes the death of a king and a pouch of magic herbs. Bet begins to believe the mole’s powers are stronger than he knows. She thinks he can even shift her size and take her exploring in his tunnels if he tries. Nothing is impossible. When the mole finally reveals his deepest wish, Bet knows she can help him. But will it change everything?

A Finder’s Magic

A boy who loses his dog meets a mysterious stranger and has a surprising adventure in an enchanting tale from a stellar author illustrator team. When Till’s beloved dog slips its leash on their daily romp, the boy goes to bed in despair. But he wakes to meet Mr. Finder, an odd little man from his dream, who offers to help him retrieve the frisky pup. Together Till and Finder question some likely witnesses: a heron, a mole, a riddling cat, and two obliging old ladies, Miss Gammer and Miss Mousy. But Finder is a peculiar fi gure, given to disappearing suddenly, and Till starts to wonder: Can he be trusted? Part detective story, part fairy tale, A Finder s Magic has mystery, darkness and light, and all the emotional truth that is a hallmark of Philippa Pearce s writing.

What the Neighbors Did

What is it like to be a fly on the wall in our neighbours’ houses? With these eight gently humorous stories, Philippa Pearce lifts the lid from the neighbours’ houses and shows us the lives within. From the author of ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ and ‘A Dog So Small’.

Lion at School

A collection of nine stories about animals, including a lion who goes to school, a lonely horse in search of adventure, and a mouse trying to avoid a mousetrap.

Familiar and Haunting

FamiliarHere are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and…
as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can’t swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try…
. as haunting as a stranger: Who is the frightened looking girl stealing plums from Nicky’s grandparents’ precious tree?…
as haunting as cruelty: How can Joe escape from his mean cousin Dicky during a family reunion?HauntingAnd here are stories with a supernatural twist, as haunting as the eerie whistling from the hill above Burnt House in the middle of the night and…
as familiar as guilt: A boy forgets the mysterious bottle his cousin loaned him, but when he sneaks out at night to retrieve it, the shadowy whistlers close in on him…
. as familiar as loneliness: A ghost who’s unbearably lonesome makes his neighbors suffer until a girl with a sense of the absurd shows him how things could be different…
. as familiar as love: The ghost of a boy comes back to save his father from dying in a ferocious storm. Peopled with vivid, unforgettable characters, this collection of thirty seven stories is by turns mysterious, humorous, strange, and sad, but it is always familiar, always haunting, and always surprising.

Mrs. Co*ckle’s cat

Mrs Co*ckle’s cat, Peter, is cross and miserable from staying indoors. Even worse, there is no fresh fish to eat. The weather is so bad that the fisherman can’t take their boats out to sea. Finally, Peter can stand it no longer and goes in search of fish, leaving poor Mrs Co*ckle all alone.

Dread and Delight

A collection of forty ghost stories charts the genre’s development throughout the twentieth century and includes the works of such authors as M. R. James, A. C. Benson, Walter de la Mare, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leon Garfield. UP.

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