Compare and contrast the agency available to children in Tom`s Midnight Garden

Children have the capacity to believe in magic or the supernatural. It does not occur to Tom for a moment that he is dreaming his experiences in the garden. He knows that he is opening the front door onto Victorian times. He is so confident in the complete possibility of this that he writes to his brother, Peter, and recounts his adventures with the same air of normalcy that he would if he was recounting a day at the beach or an afternoon in the movie theater. Peter, for his part, believes what Tom tells him without question and does not think for a second that his brother is just making things up.

Mrs Bartholomew also knows that Tom is telling the truth because he has been included in her dreams each night, which would really not be possible without the help of magic because the two had never met before.