Goodnight Mister Tom

Author: Michelle Magorian

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Price : 16.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780140372335
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Puffin Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.411
Publication date : 30 November 1995
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 31mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Michelle Magorian
Series : Puffin Modern Classics Ser.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : [New e
Illustrator : Neil Reed
Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.914
Reading Level : 2-12
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Pages : 448
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Description

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.

Awards

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.

Author description

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.