Goodnight Mister Tom
1981 children's novel by Michelle Magorian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Goodnight Mister Tom is a children's novel by English author Michelle Magorian, published by Kestrel in 1981. Harper & Row published an American edition the same year.[1] Set during World War II, it features a boy abused at home in London who is evacuated to the country at the outbreak of the war. In the care of Mister Tom, an elderly recluse, he experiences a new life of loving and care.
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Author | Michelle Magorian |
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Cover artist | Angelo Renaldi |
Genre | Children's historical novel |
Publisher | Kestrel Books |
Publication date | 1981 |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 304 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 0-7226-5701-3 |
OCLC | 9987640 |
LC Class | PZ7.M275 Go 1981[1] |
Magorian and Mister Tom won the annual once-or-lifetime Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.[2] She was also a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best English-language children's book published in the UK.[3][lower-alpha 1]
The novel has been adapted as a stage musical and as the film Goodnight Mister Tom (1998). In 2003, it was listed at #49 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[4] The most recent theatrical adaptation, Goodnight Mister Tom, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.[5]