| Every night when I was little, my mother would read me a bedtime story. |
| My favorite story was Tom’s Midnight Garden. |
| This was a story by Philippa Pearce. |
| It was quite a long book, |
| and it took quite a few nights for my mother to read the entire book to me. |
| In Tom’s Midnight Garden Tom moves to the city to stay with his aunt and uncle. |
| He is very bored at their apartment. |
| They have no children, so Tom has nothing to do. |
| One night, the clock strikes thirteen times. |
| Tom knows that this is impossible. |
| A clock can only strike up to twelve times. |
| He sneaks downstairs and goes outside. |
| When he goes outside, there is a wonderful garden that wasn’t there the day before. |
| The next day, Tom goes outside and finds there is no garden. |
| The garden only seems to appear at night. |
| Every night, Tom slips out to this wonderful garden, and meets some people in the garden. |
| He meets a girl named Hattie. |
| Hattie and Tom become very good friends in this garden. |
| Some very strange things happen in this book. |
| There are some coincidences that keep you guessing about what is really going on. |
| The surprise ending is wonderful. |
| I really enjoyed Tom’s Midnight Garden |
| and I was very sad when my mother and I came to the end of the book. |
| I felt that I had visited the magical garden with Tom. |
| It is a book that I will remember all my life |
