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lisakimmence3 's review for:
Tom's Midnight Garden
by Philippa Pearce
It grieves me to rate a middle grade book written in 1958 so low, but I just didn't like this book. When I think gardens at midnight, I always think 'magical' but this book was anything but. The problem I had with it is it lacked foundation. There was no building of the story. On one page, we learn Tom discovers a back garden that isn't there during the day then, on the next page, he's visited the garden during many seasons. From that point, the story lost me. Mainly because I didn't find there to be a story at all. I had been really excited to read this one. So disappointing.