Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. She is best known for her time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, awarded to the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.

Pearce was commended as a runner-up for the Medal four additional times. She wrote over 30 books, including A Dog So Small (1962), Minnow on the Say (1955), The Squirrel Wife (1971), The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (1978), and The Way To Sattin Shore (1983). Her works The Shadow Cage and other tales of the supernatural (1977), Minnow on the Say, Bubble and Squeak, and Sattin Shore were all Carnegie Medal runners-up.