GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM

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´ guardianmichelle 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.