Goodnight Mister Tom

Blurb

Goodnight Mister Tom is a children's novel by the English author Michelle Magorian, published by Kestrel in 1981. Harper & Row published a U.S. edition within the calendar year. Set in mostly rural England 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 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of British children's writers. 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.
The novel has been twice adapted as a musical, once as a play and once as a film, Goodnight Mister Tom. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 49 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The most recent theatrical adaptation, Goodnight Mister Tom won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.