This is a story about three children who are given two gerbils as their owner is emigrating to Australia. The book won the Whitbread Award and the author also wrote "Tom's Midnight Garden".
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Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and History at Girton College. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers - as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. Philippa lives just outside Cambridge.
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