Tom's Midnight Garden Graphic Novel

This book looks more like a comic book than anything else, but this wouldn't have been a problem for me. What I really didn't like is that one obviously has to have seen the movie before, or at least know the story for this book to even make total sense. I had only read about the book and the story behind it, and wanted to buy this book for my 8 year old, but after having read it I think she would be totally lost and quite bored with this book. The illustration are well made, but the way the speech bubbles are written one simply gets lost in the obvious hidden meaning that are often important to understand the whole story.I'm glad I got a good deal on a used book and didn't pay full price on a new one. If you know the story already and are an absolute fan then by all means buy it, but if you are new to the story like I am I think you'd be better off to buy the normal book.I did like what I understood about the story, and I'm planning on buying the normal book. Hopefully it is better written and explains different parts better than this comic.

I read the original version of this book over 40 years ago in grade school. The story greatly affected me. I loved it. As time went by, I forgot the title and the author, but one day my wife found the book in the local library and identified it based on my description of the story that I talked to her about for over 40 years. When this graphic novel came out, I just had to have a copy of it as well. My favorite book of all time.

The kids like the graphic novel much better than the original book!

Full color! Beautiful graphics. I had read the novel, and never imagined a graphic novel could do the book justice. I was overjoyed when the graphic novel arrived. A pure treasure!

Incredible illustrations, sweet characters and a sweeping fantasy. You couldn’t do better than “Tom’s Midnight Garden.” I will read it with my nephew.

My fifth grade students have loved this book. There is a wait list to read it!

I love this graphic version of a favorite chilfren’s classic.

Gift. Person loved the book.

I’ve read Tom’s Midnight Garden more times than I probably care to admit, and I have a truly old, ex-library copy, with a picture of “Tom” and “Hetty” on the front cover - Amazon says that this edition was published in the late 50s but mine is probably a reprint.I loved the story and re-read it every so often and it has truly stood the test of time with me personally. So I was curious when I saw this, a graphic adaptation of one of my much loved childhood books.This is probably my first attempt at a graphic novel - I have The Exile by Diana Gabaldon, but have never got around to reading it. This whiled away about an hour or so during a quiet shift at work, and while I enjoyed it, there were some things that I wasn’t keen on.There are some minor changes from the original novel - but nothing too significant and just small things that you won’t really notice, unless the book is fresh in your mind. But most of it is just cutting it down to fit the graphic novel retelling.What I really didn’t like was the illustrations. When you’ve gone through so many years of seeing the characters based on a picture from the front cover, seeing another person’s interpretation of them just doesn’t ring true. The illustrations in this were very childish and almost Tintin-esque in appearance, with strange noses and odd features. This annoyed me throughout the reading, although I tried to put it to one side and enjoy the story.If you know/remember the story well enough, you’ll zip through this in no time at all, and it has put me in mind to dig out my old copy from the bookcase and re-read it. I think what would have improved this for me is better illustrations.

The book is so good that I wanted to see how it had been turned into a graphic novel. It looks good so far.

Supported the children with SEND in my class and the others who found it easier to visualise it with this book.

Great story beautifully illustrated. Highly recommended

An original and beautifully told story that brings children from two different eras into a timeless space but I found it more 'worthy' than gripping.