Goodnight Mister Tom

Author(s): Michelle Magorian

Young Adult Fiction

Willie is evacuated to the country during 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 to London.

General Information

  • : 9780140372335
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Puffin Classics
  • : 0.411
  • : 01 December 1995
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Michelle Magorian
  • : Paperback
  • : [New e
  • : Neil Reed
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 448
  • : illustrations

More About The Product

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.