Tom’s Midnight Garden,
Edith, 94 pages
In this graphic novel adaptation of the book by Philippa
Pearce, Tom has been shipped off to his aunt and uncle’s house to hopefully avoid
catching measles from his younger brother. At first, he is excruciatingly bored
– he’s in quarantine, so he can’t go out, and the mysterious landlady allegedly
dislikes children, so he must stay quiet. But at night, the old clock in the
hall chimes thirteen, and Tom creeps downstairs and out the back door, to a
beautiful garden that isn’t there in the daytime, and a girl named Hatty from
long ago, his new friend.
A beautiful, atmospheric graphic novel about time and
memory. There’s never any explanation given for how or why Tom travels back in
time to the garden, and the book would suffer if there were. The art is
gorgeous, lush and expressive. This is a must-read for anyone who likes graphic
novels.
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