Goodnight Mister Tom

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

Good Night Mr. Tom
First edition
AuthorMichelle Magorian
Cover artistAngelo Renaldi
GenreChildren's historical novel
PublisherKestrel Books
Publication date
1981
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages304 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-7226-5701-3
OCLC9987640
LC ClassPZ7.M275 Go 1981[1]

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 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]

  1. ^ a b "Goodnight, Mister Tom" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 4 August 2012. With a later publisher description.
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  4. ^ "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. April 2003. Retrieved 11 November 2012
  5. ^ "Curious Night at the Oliviers". Olivier Awards. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.


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