Minnow on the Say is a children's novel written by English writer Philippa Pearce, first published by Oxford University Press in 1955.

According to The Guardian, "She brightened the long days in bed by savouring in her imagination every second of a canoe trip on the river that had run beside the garden of that childhood home five miles away.

Pamela Whitlock in The Spectator commented at the time of first publication: "Minnow on the Say will provide a fresh experience for readers who expect every book to whirl them into quick fire thrills.

[6] American writer Daria Donnelly commented in Commonweal in 2000: "Philipa Pearce's 1958 Tom's Midnight Garden [...] is considered one of the finest novels written for children, "as near as any book I know to being perfect in its construction and writing" according to critic John Rowe Townsend.

[9] In the UK, the story was read on Jackanory in 1966[10] and a BBC serial adaptation, Treasure over the Water, aired in 1972.