Goodnight Mister Tom (Penguin Random House Children's UK)

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Goodnight Mister Tom - winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award - żeby Michelle Magorian has delighted generations of children. It's the story of young Willie Beech, evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War.

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. As time goes by Tom begins to worry when Willie doesn't answer his letters, so he goes to London to find him, and there makes a terrible discovery.

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 superb film starring the late John Thaw. In 2012 Michelle was made a Fellow of the Rose Bruford College.

Also aby Michelle Magorian: Goodnight Mister Tom; Back Home; Waiting for my Shorts to Dry; Who's Going to take Care of Me$701; Orange Paw Marks; A Little Love Song; In Deep Water; Jump; A Cuckoo in the Nest; A Spoonful of Jam; Be Yourself; and Just Henry.

Also available in A Puffin Book: Back Home aby Michelle Magorian; Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet Of The Swan aby E. B. White; The Borrowers aby Mary Norton; Stig Of The Dump żeby Clive King; Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry aby Mildred D.

Taylor; A Dog So Small by Philippa Pearce; Gobbolino by Ursula; Moray Williams Carrie's War żeby Nina Bawden; Mrs Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh żeby Richard C O'Brien; A Wrinkle In Time żeby Madeleine L'Engle; The Cay aby Theodore Taylor; Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson; Watership Down żeby Richard Adams; Smith żeby Leon Garfield; The Neverending Story aby Michael Ende; Annie aby Thomas Meehan; and The Family From One End Street żeby Eve Garnett.