Goodnight Mister Tom
Author(s): Michelle Magorian
Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of World War II. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his-new found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London.
Product Information
Winner of the "Guardian" Children's Fiction Award.
Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1982. Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth and on leaving school studied at the Rose Bruford College of speech and Drama and Marcel Marceau's International School of Mime in Paris. Over the years she became interested in children's books and decided to write one herself. The result was Goodnight Mister Tom, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, an International Reading Association Award and was also made into a much-loved film.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin Books
- : 0.205
- : 31 March 1983
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Michelle Magorian
- : Paperback
- : 823.914
- : From 2 to 12
- : 304
- : illustrations
