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Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Mum said war was a punishment from God for people's sins, so he'd better watch out. She didn't tell him what to watch out for, though. When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old Tom Oakley. But then his cruel mother summons him back to war-torn London . . . Will he ever see Mister Tom again? 'Everyone's idea of a smash-hit first novel: full-blown characters to love and hate, moments of grief and joy, and a marvellous story that knows just how to grab the emotions' Guardian 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, starring the late John Thaw.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Random House Children's UK
ISBN-139780141332253
eBay Product ID (ePID)97777414
Product Key Features
Book TitleGoodnight Mister Tom
AuthorMichelle Magorian
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
GenreChildren & Young Adults
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMichelle Magorian
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom