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Philippa Pearce

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English children's writer (1920–2006)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1920
Died: 2006
Works: 64

Top works

Ghost Stories
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Animal stories
Tom's Midnight Garden
A finder's magic

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1920-01-22
Active to: 2006-12-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 46
Total plays: 280

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,222x
Trace Element Discrimination Diagrams for the Tectonic Interpretation of Granitic Rocks
· 1984 · cited 6,959x
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,785x
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,581x

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Key dates

Born: 23 January 1920
Died: 21 December 2006

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Ann
Gender: female
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Great Shelford
Place of death: Durham
Occupation: children's writer
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Connections

children's literature

Royal Society of Literature

Categories

1920 births 2006 deaths Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Carnegie Medal in Literature winners English children's writers English women novelists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at the Perse School for Girls People from Great Shelford Writers from Cambridgeshire

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Notable work

Tom's Midnight Garden

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P509: stroke
P1196: natural causes
P551: London
P1411: Carnegie Medal
P6886: English language

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tuberculosis

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Library of Congress

Order of the British Empire

10 Downing Street

Oxford University Press

film adaptation

Northern Lights

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What links here67 pages

Edward Ardizzone

Costa Book Awards

1955 in literature

An Experiment with Time

1958 in literature

Kate Greenaway Medal

2006 in the United Kingdom

children's literature

Little Shelford

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

Tom's Midnight Garden

2006 in literature

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award