Talk:Tom's Midnight Garden

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by the image contributor later in the same day. It's more superficial than most. --P64 (talk) 04:54, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Age

Children's books can be for a variety of ages. Would it be worthwhile adding somewhere in this article whether this book is for three or ten year old children for instance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.1.168 (talk) 22:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly we may and probably we should say that (CILIP) --in effect, the British children's librarians?-- assigned it "age range 10+" in 2007. [1] (That is one link removed from [ref name=topten].)

By the way, their age recommendations for their top ten Medal-winning works (1936–2005) are "age range 6+" at minimum and "age range 14+" at maximum, with 10+ the norm matched by five of the ten books. --P64 (talk) 04:54, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

Hello. New user here. I removed a piece of criticism by Ward Bradley which seemed totally non-notable to me. I understand wikipedia strives for balance, but it seems bizarre to spend equal space (of very little used) on positive and negative criticial reception to the book, when that is not at all representative of the aggregate opinion. This is well reflected by the fact that the positive opinion is quite notable, and a - as far as I can tell - no name criticism was dug up for the negative opinion. So, yes, the comment was factual and verifiable, but misleading, unrepresentative, and not noteworthy. It appears it has gone back and forth in the editing more than once, so hopefully my edit is not inappropriate. Regards. Nobodypurposeful (talk) 17:21, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That negative criticism by Ward Bradley is in the article (back again?). I also doubt its notability on the joint grounds [1] the reference is unusually poor and [2] I don't readily find identify/hit either "Ward Bradley" or "Literary Depictions of Victorian Britain". Those grounds do not directly concern notability but the need for a reference is acute.

The next reference in sequence sequence is worse, simply "Varsity, Issue Number 689." (and the markup Varsity is mine). Probably the issue has a date; the item a title and page, maybe even an author.

I have tagged both of them --currently refs 8 and 9).

Hello - I'm not versed in reference formatting on here but it's on p6 of this issue of Varsity: http://archive.varsity.co.uk/689.pdf which is from 6 February 2009. Will come back when I've got a moment and put it into the article properly when I've looked at how, else feel free to, whoever's reading 87.194.30.190 (talk) 16:38, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The obituary of Pearce [ref name=tucker] includes Nicholas Tucker's own four-paragraph review of the novel.

The recent retrospective review [ref name=townsend2011] by John Rowe Townsend is likely to be useful. The now-complex citation of Written for Children may be improved by checking the latest edition to pair that (rather than the second U.S. edition, 1983) with the first edition (1965). See "Formats and editions of Written for children" (WorldCat).

--P64 (talk) 04:54, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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