Philippa Pearce

Philippa Pearce was an English author of children's books, best known for the time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was also a commended runner-up for the Medal four more times. Battle of Bubble and Squeak is another children's story, in which a boy named Tom finds a tiny sprite called Bubble who has lost his way and must be helped home through the rooms and corners of an ordinary house.