Biography michelle magorian goodnight mr tom

1981 children's novel by Michelle Magorian

For related adaptations, see Goodnight Mister Tom (film) and Goodnight Mister Tom (play).

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.

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][a]

The novel has been adapted as a stage musical and as the filmGoodnight Mis